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Hematology
Lab Equipment
Urinalysis
Microbiology
Parasitology
100
PCV, RBC count and Hemoglobin determination
What is included in a complete blood count?
100
Wipe oil immersion lens w/ lens paper, lower stage, put objective 4x in place, turn off light, and cover.
What is the procedure to put away a microscope?
100
After immediately collecting.
What is the best time to test a urine sample?
100
This is most useful for differentiating the bacterial species present on a slide.
What is gram stain?
100
Metronidazole
What is the best treatment for giardia?
200
Blood film evaluation.
What is part of a CBC that has to be performed by a trained vet. tech and not the blood analysis machine?
200
Urine must be at room temp. to accurately obtain results from this test.
What is the chemical reagent strip test?
200
Avoidance of contamination from adjacent tissues or excretions.
What is obtaining accurate and useful results when collecting a sample for culture?
200
Eating raw meat can transmit this.
What are tapeworms?
300
purple top, EDTA blood tube
What is the blood tube preferred for CBCs?
300
A method of illumination, by adjustment of the substage condenser, for the best image detail.
What is Kohler illumination?
300
Myoglobin, hemoglobin, or RBCs is likely to give you this on a chemical reagent strip test.
What is positive for blood?
300
Knowing the species and organ system affected allows the lab tech to narrow down the list of possible pathogens in a sample.
What is important history and why for a sample to be tested?
300
6 months of age.
What is the age we start to heartworm test puppies?
400
No anticoagulant in this tube.
What is a red top tube?
400
hemocytometer
What is the name of the device used to count blood cells?
400
Squamous, transitional and renal tubular.
What are epithelial cells found in urine sediment?
400
Direct microscopic exams (of exudates, impression smears from body or tissue or infected body fluids.)
What is the most important lab procedure used for microbiologic diagnosis?
400
3 months of treatment
What is the minimal time you treat for fleas?
500
The percentage of total blood volume accounted for by RBCs.
What is PCV?
500
These need to be classified according to type and recorded because they may indicate presence of disease
What are casts and crystals in urine sediment?
500
This requires a special culture container from which all oxygen has been removed and cannot grow at all in the presence of oxygen.
What is obligate anaerobic bacteria?
500
Dirofilaria Immitis.
What is heartworm?