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what are the specimen of choice for smear preparation |
EDTA anticoagulated whole blood or free-flowing capillary blood |
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What will you do if EDTa is used? |
smears must be prepared within 1 hour of collection |
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Storing temperature of blood for smearing |
18 C to 25 C |
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Types of Smear in Clinical Hematology Laboratory |
Thin smear, thick smear and Buffy coat smear |
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Thin smear is also called |
wedge smear, cover glass smear or spun smear |
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used to evaluate the type of anemia, to identify blood abnormalities, to screen presence of malarial parsite or to perform manual |
Thin smear |
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to determine the species and the stage of the malarial parasite |
Thick Smear |
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extremely low WBC count (<1.0x10^9/L) |
Buffy coat smear |
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intracellular parasite that attacks RBC |
Malarial oarasite |
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Wualities of a well made blood smear |
6 |
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Common causes of a poor blood smear |
8 |
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Romanowsky stain |
3 |
Eosin |
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Components of Romanowsky stain |
stain eosinophilic and basci structures |
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acidic component |
eosin |
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stain basophilic structures and acidic structures |
Methylene blue |
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Basuc component |
Methylene blue |
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Cause of too Acidic smear |
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Cause of two basic smear |
4 |
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fix cells on the slide |
Methanol |
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This is put after Methylene blue |
Aged distilled water |
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prolinged dip into aged H20 |
Too acidic smear |
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