MLHP Review Questions for Quiz 2

What is hematocrit? What is it also known as? How is the units for hematocrit and units for packed cell volume?

-What is anemia?

-What is polycthemia?

-How do you collect blood for the microhematocrit test? Explain the manual method? What is the sources of error?

-what is reticulocytes? Where is it produced? What is reticulocytosis? What is reticulocytopenia?

-what is supravital stain? What is it main off

-What is reticulocyte count?

-on a wright’s stained smear reticulocytes appear which colour?

-how do you do the reticulocyte count? How do you calculate? What is the formula?

-EDTA specimens for reticulocyte counts are stable for how long?

-what is hemacytometer? -Understanding the grid. Where do you count for WBC, RBC and Platelets in the counting chamber.

-what is the used dilution factors for rbc, wbc, and plt? What is the area counted mm square?

-how do you load the counting chamber?

-what is the shape for counting pattern?

-knowing the formula and how to calculate based of the dilution factor

-what is ESR? What does is stand for? What is the principle for it? What are the factors affect ESR? What are the technical factors?

-what is the method for doing ESR? (ex. Westergren method), what is the other method?

-what is body fluids?

-what is seminal analysis? How is it collected and stored?

-what is CSF? What is the four main functions? What tubes do you take? Colour? Clarity?

-Which tube number do you use CSF cell counts?

-What is bone marrow collection

-What is serous fluid? What are the three sites?

-What is arthrocentesis?

-what is synovial fluid? What is its gross appearance? How to transport?

-what is amniotic fluid? How to handle and transport?