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What is Hemotology?
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The Study of Blood
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Why do vet techs need to know hemotology?
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Diagnostic testing, Disease evaluation, pre-surgery screening, improve animal care, increase revanue for the veterinary clinic
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What is Hematopoesis?
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The production of white blood cells
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What are the contents of whole blood?
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Red Blood Cells, White blood cells, plasma, and platelets (thrombocytes)
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What is plasma and what are it's contents?
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It is the fluid in which the rest of whole blood is suspended. It is 90% water and 10% Constituents such as vitamins, carbs, protiens, enzymes, horemones, lipids, ect.
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What are the colors of plasma and what do they mean.
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straw/clear: Normal
Yellow/orange: Icteric (jaundiced) White: lipemic (fat) Red/pink: Hemolesis (broken red blood cells) |
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What is important to remember when you are inverting a blood tube to create a hemogenis mixture?
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If you shake, you break!
Will cause destruction of RBC's and hemolesised plasma. |
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What is heperin?
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A type of anticoagulent.
Suitable for use durring blood chemistry analysis and examination of red blood cells. |
