HEMATOLOGY 1

1. What is the root word of hematology?

2. How much body weight percentage does blood contribute to?
3. How many liters of blood are there in an adult?
4. What are the 3 formed elements within the blood?
5. What percentage does formed elements contribute? How about the fluid
portion?
6. What is the percentage composition of the fluid of the blood?
7. What is the difference between plasma and serum?
8. What is universal precaution?
9. What is the most critical step of collection of blood?
10.What are the labels that should be written on the specimen?
11.What is the chemical used to disinfect the site of venipuncture/
12.Why is iodine or betadine not used in routine venipuncture?
13. What are the 2 alternative terms for skin puncture?
14.When will you use microsampling technique?
15. Where is the acceptable site used for obtaining blood on an infant’s heel?
16. How should you puncture the finger in correlation to the fingerprint
ridges?
17.Which finger should be utilized for skin puncture?
18.What is the term for the procedure used to collect blood from the veins?
19. How many minutes will you wait after crying of the patient to prevent
erroneous WBC results?
20.What are the most common gauges of needles used?
21.What is the most optimal needle length?
22.What needle gauge is optimal for small veins?
23.What is the approximate angle for venipuncture?
24.How far should you anchor your finger from the anchor site?
25.When should you release the tourniquet?
26.What is the area on the arms where the 3 veins can be found for
venipuncture?
27.What is the most common site of venipuncture?
28.What is the last vein of choice utilized for venipuncture and why?
29.How many attempts does the technologist have before referring someone
to another technologist?
30.What are the necessary steps to be taken if coagulation tubes are to be
taken first? And why?
31.Why is it needed to apply pressure on the venipuncture site?
32.What are the 5 isolation techniques used?
33.What is the most widely used anticoagulant?
34.What are the 2 other names for EDTA?
35.What is the term for an EDTA on liquid form?
36.What are the 3 available states of EDTA?
37.What will happen with the blood with excess EDTA?
38.Anti-coagulant used for coagulation studies? Concentration? (in percent
and moles)
39.Enumerate the parts of the microscope.
40.What are the 4 objectives commonly used on hematology on a microscope?
41.What is the general distance between the eyepiece and the objective
lenses?
42.The most used substage condenser.
43.The term for the image seen by the eye through a compound microscope.
44.What is the numerical aperture? Its equation?
45.What is refractive index?
46.What is resolving power? Its equation?
47.Why is a drop of oil used on microscopy?
48.Type of microscopy utilized for platelet counts.
49.What are the 2 kinds of electron microscopy?
50.What are the parts of a spectrophotometer/photometer?
51.What is the principle of spectrophotometry based on? (full term)
52.Equation of spectrophotometry.
53.A chart used for automatically determining the RCF when the radius and
RPM are known.
54.A term for an extremely high-speed centrifuge.
55.A gadget used to measure centrifuge rpm and maintenance.
56.Explain accuracy and precision.
57.Formula for Standard deviation (S.D.)
58.Formula for mean
59.Formula for coefficient of variation (C.V.)
60.Formula of variance.
61.Is the most widely used quality control chart.
62.Quality control chart when two control samples are run.
 63.Is a quality control graph used, where the mean for the control is
determined and the result is also subtracted from each control.
64.May be used with levy-jennings chart to decide if a run is to be rejected or
accepted.
65.What are the 5 Westgard multirules?
66.What internal quality control? what is external quality control?
67.What is the standard deviation index? How is it computed? Its limits?

HEMATOLOGY 2
1. Explain hematopoiesis from fetus to adulthood.
2.