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Hemostasis - Answer The process of keeping blood in the fluid state unless clotting occurs due to vascular injury Primary hemostasis - Answer A platelet plug is formed on damaged vessels Secondary hemostasis - Answer Fibrin formation from plasma factors What are the two roles of the vascular system? - Answer Release of exposed substances and vasoconstriction What are the two exposed substances in the vascular system? - Answer Collagen and Von Willebrand's Factor What ar...

Intramedullary Hemolysis - Answer cell destruction inside the bone marrow Leukocytosis - Answer increase in the number of white blood cells Intravascular - Answer Within the blood vessel Extravascular - Answer outside the blood vascular system RES system organs - Answer Spleen, liver, Thymus, Bone Marrow, Lymph nodes Where does hematopoiesis occur? - Answer Inside the bone marrow Where do megakaryocytes reside? - Answer along the lining in the bone marrow What ...

What refers to the reproducibility of test results? - Precision A process that monitors the accuracy and reproducibility of results through the use of control specimens. - Quality control What detects any progressive drift off values to one side of the average for at least 3 days? - Trend A means by which quality control between laboratories is maintained - Proficiency testing OSHA has defined *BLANK* as blood and blood products, contaminated sharps, pathology waste products, and microbiological...

To correctly report a colony count in a urine culture plated using a calibrated 0.001 mL loop, the observed colony count must be multiplied by which of the following? a. 1 b. 100 c. 1000 d. 2000 - c. 1000 Examination of peripheral blood smear revealed 12 nucleated erythrocytes per 100 leukocytes. Which histogram observation correlates with this finding? a. Failure of the granulocyte population to return to baseline on the leukocyte histogram b. Shift to the left of the erythrocyte population on ...