Blood Cell Jobs
These blood components act as the body's oxygen delivery trucks.
What are red blood cells?
These tiny cell fragments gather and stick together at an injured blood vessel to form the first clot.
What are platelets?
A CBC is described as this kind of view of the cells currently circulating in the bloodstream.
What is a snapshot?
This is the name for a problem with the body's normal clotting process.
What is a coagulopathy? (Page 11)
This instrument measures urine specific gravity.
What is a refractometer?
This color-top tube contains EDTA and is used for routine hematology.
What is a purple-top tube?
These blood cells are compared with the body's security team because they respond to infection, inflammation, and other threats
What are white blood cells?
A patient with too few platelets has an increased risk of this complication.
What is bleeding?
The three major components summarized by the CBC are red blood cells, white blood cells, and these clot-forming fragments.
What is a platelet
Blood for coagulation testing is collected into this color and type of tube.
What is a blue-top sodium citrate tube?
Color, clarity, volume, and urine specific gravity belong to this part of the urinalysis.
What is the physical examination?
The liquid portion above the sediment after centrifugation is called this.
What is the supernatant?
This white blood cell is the first responder that fights bacteria.
What is a neutrophil?
Platelets may do this after collection, causing an analyzer to report a falsely low count.
What is clump together?
Name any three problems a CBC may help identify.
What are any three of anemia, blood loss, infection, inflammation, allergic disease, immune disorders, bone marrow disease, clotting abnormalities, or some cancers?
CARE uses this analyzer to measure how long the sample takes to form a clot.
What is the IDEXX Coag Dx Analyzer?
pH, protein, glucose, ketones, blood, bilirubin, and urobilinogen are assessed during this part of the urinalysis.
What is the chemical examination?
If only one sample is placed in a centrifuge, this must be placed directly opposite it.
What is a balanced dummy sample?
This white blood cell becomes a macrophage in tissues and cleans up dead cells, bacteria, and debris.
What is a monocyte?
This term describes a platelet count that appears low even though the platelets are actually clumped in the sample.
What is pseudothrombocytopenia?
A manual platelet estimate can classify the platelet supply using these three broad descriptions.
What are adequate, decreased, and severely decreased?
Name any three situations listed in the lesson that may prompt coagulation testing.
What are any three of suspected rodenticide toxicity, unexplained bleeding, trauma, severe liver disease, certain snake bites, before some surgeries, or another disorder affecting clotting? (Page 11)
Put these manual sediment steps in order after collection: place a drop on a slide, centrifuge, re-suspend the sediment, remove most of the liquid.
What is centrifuge, remove most of the liquid, re-suspend the sediment, then place a drop on a slide?
This microscope objective is used with immersion oil.
What is the 100x objective?
Name the two white blood cells associated with allergic responses in the lesson, including the one that releases histamine.
What are eosinophils and basophils?
The analyzer reports a low platelet count and flags clumps. This quality check helps determine whether the patient is truly thrombocytopenic.
What is a manual platelet estimate or blood smear review?
A low automated platelet result should not automatically drive treatment because the manual estimate must first answer this question.
What is whether the low count is genuine or the analyzer missed clumped platelets?
Give three sample-handling requirements that protect the accuracy of a coagulation test.
What are filling the sodium citrate tube correctly, preventing clots, handling it carefully, and delivering it promptly? Any three.
Unlike manual sediment examination, this automated analyzer uses fresh urine, captures hundreds of microscopic images, and uses artificial intelligence to identify particles.
What is the IDEXX SediVue?
A pink plasma or serum sample indicates rupture of red blood cells, known by this term.
What is hemolysis?