Kinns Chapter 54: Assisting in Analysis of blood Test Bank Questions All Solved Correct.

The analysis of blood - Answer As a medical assistant, you will not perform all the procedures within Counting - Answer The hematology section of a laboratory deal with Hematocrit and hemoglobin - Answer H+H RBC count, WBC count, hemoglobin determination, hematocrit determination, differential WBC count, estimation of platelet numbers, and red cell indicates - Answer The CBC is the laboratory procedure that give a complete look at the components of blood and can provide what? 55% of blood by volume - Answer Plasma makes up approximately Erythrocytes (RBC), leukocytes (WBC), and thrombocytes (platelets) - Answer The remaining 45% of blood consists of formed cellular elements such as what? Erythrocytes - Answer These transport oxygen 120 days - Answer The life span of an erythrocyte White blood cells - Answer Leukocytes are also called Thromboplastin - Answer During clot formation platelets produce a substance that combines with calcium ions in the blood to form what? Thrombin - Answer Thromboplastin converts the protein prothrombin into what thrugh a complex series of reactions? Fibrin - Answer This is a insoluble protein that forms an intricate network of minute, threadlike structures called fibrils Fibrils - Answer These threadlike structures cause the blood plasma to turn into gel