Central Georgia Technical College Clinical Laboratory Technology Program Clinical Practicum Worksheet #1 CLBT 2110 – Hematology/Coag

Student ______Clinical Affiliate ______

Department ______Dates of rotation ______

(Used additional sheets as necessary)

1. What is the Rule of 3’s?

2. List the maturation sequence for granulocytes.

3. What is the stain of choice for peripheral blood smears?

4. What is the stain of choice for reticulocytes?

5. Define the following terms:

Anisocytosis Poikilocytosis MCV MCH MCHC ESR Macrocytes Microcytes Polychromatophilia

6. Why and how are WBCs corrected for NRBCs?

7. What are the normal ranges for the following?

WBC Hemoglobin (male and female) Platelet PT PTT Neutrophil % Lymphocyte % Reticulocyte % (adult)

8. What is the RDW? 9. What are the functions of the following?

Eosinophils Basophils Monocytes Lymphocytes Plasma Cells

10. Which parameters are measured directly on the automated cell counter at your clinical site? Which parameters are calculated values?

11. What is the cell counting principle of electrical impedance?

12. Name the location of each of the following fluids found in the body:

CSF Pleural Pericardial Peritoneal Synovial

13. What is an LAP score? Which diseases show an increased LAP score? Which diseases show a decreased LAP score?

14. A “shift to the left” is indicative of what condition?

15. What are Dohie bodies? Howell-Jolly bodies?

16. What causes the hemolysis in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria? What is the diagnostic test?

17. What is pernicious anemia? Which blood characteristics are seen on the peripheral smear?

18. Define the following conditions:

Leukemia Pelger-Huet anomaly Chediak-Higashi anomaly AIder-Reilly anomaly May-Hegglin anomaly Gaucher’s disease

19. What factors make up each of the following? Contact family Prothrombin family Fibrinogen family

20. What is the PT? What reagents are used to measure it? What factors does it measure? What might cause it to be prolonged?

21. What is the PTT? What reagents are used to measure it? What factors does it measure? What might cause it to be prolonged?

22. Compare and contrast the test for FDPs and D-dimers. What conditions might be indicated when these tests are positive?

23. Which factor deficiency is found with classic hemophilia? Christmas disease?

24. Which clotting factors are vitamin K dependent?

25. What are mixing studies?