Automated Analyzers
Instrument that measures blood sugar
What is a glucometer?
Between plasma and serum, what doesn't contain fibrinogen?
What is serum?
What is a common anticoagulant used for plasma samples?
What is Lithium Heparin?
In a diabetic animal, blood chemistry analysis is commonly performed to monitor insulin therapy by measuring blood levels of this
What is glucose?
Type of photometer that uses a filter to select the wavelength
What is a colorimeter?
What is Jaundice?
This color tube must never be placed on a blood rocker after being filled with blood
What is a red top?
This is the name of a sample collected after an animal has eaten
What is postprandial?
Which of the following is used to evaluate kidney filtration and function, is excreted, and is then reabsorbed?
Urea
Creatinine
Glucose
Sodium
What is urea?
Analyzer designed to measure the amount of light transmitted through a solution
What is a spectrophotometer?
Centrifuging a blood sample at high speed for a prolonged period of time, may result in this.
What is Hemolysis?
The red top Vacutainer tube should sit at room temperature for this long before centrifugation to allow a clot to form
What is 15-30 minutes?
Samples must have what information written on it
What is the date and time of collection, the owners name, the patients name, and the patients identification number?
False decreases in serum glucose levels can be caused by what?
Prolonged contact with red blood cells prior to centrifugation
Refrigerating the serum prior to analysis
Freezing the serum prior to analysis
A lipemic sample
What is prolonged contact with red blood cells before separating the serum?
These analyzers are used most often for the evaluation of electrolytes and other ionic components
What is ion-selective electrode technology?
The two most common problems encountered in samples to be evaluated for clinical chemistry
Hemolysis & Lipemia
What is the main difference between a red top and a tiger top?
What is the serum separator gel in the tiger top that separates the serum from the clotted blood?
If testing is delayed, doing what will help preserve the integrity of most of the sample's constituents?
What is freezing?
Serum chemistry tests for acute pancreatitis test which enzymes?
Amylase and Lipase.
Lipase and Trypsin.
Amylase and Trypsin.
Amylase, Lipase, and Tryspin.
What are amylase and lipase?
The principle states that a direct linear relationship exists between the concentration of an analyte and light absorption when monochromatic light is passed through a sample
What is Beer's Law?
A canine patient experiencing high triglycerides may have serum that is this color
What is milky/white/lipemic?
These are the two most common venipuncture sites for birds
What is the jugular and the cutaneous ulnar vein?
These three things can cause hemolysis of the sample
What is mixing too vigorously, forcing the sample through the needle when being transfer into a collection tube, and drawing the sample up in a moist syringe?
Frozen fresh plasma must be separated and frozen within what amount of time to maintain all coagulation factors in normal concentrations.
What is 8 hours?