Ch 9 Lab Proc Book Flashcards
Common causes of increased plasma protein levels include …
Dehydration
Plasma that appears to have a red tinge in a spun microhematocrit tube is referred to as …
Hemolyzed
Plasma that appears to have a yellow tinge in a spun microhematocrit tube is referred to as …
Icteric
Plasma that appears milky in a spun microhematocrit tube is referred to as …
Lipemic
The instrument that is used to measure the total protein content of a sample is the …
Refractometer
What can cause a false decrease in packed cell volume?
Low blood-to-anticoagulant ratio
The normal packed cell volume in dogs is about …
45%
A canine patient with a PCV of 38% and a RBC count of 6.5 x 10^6/µL has an MCV of …
58 fL
The unit of measure for MCHC is …
g/dL
An estimate of the total red blood cell count can be obtained by dividing the ________ by 6.
PCV
The determination of erythrocytes is helpful for the classification of?
certain kinds of anemia
The erythrocytes indices include?
MCV, MCH, AND MCHC - mean corpuscular volume, mean corpuscular hemoglobin, mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration
MCV is?
the measure of the average size of the erythrocyte
MCV is calculated by?
dividing the PCV by the RBC concentration and multiplying by 10. The unit volume is the femtoliter fL
