The laboratory values shown in the accompanying table are seen. WBC- 76 x 103 /ul             55% segs RBC- 4.20 x 106 /ul            15% bands Plt – 398 x 103 /ul             12% lymphs Hgb 12.5 g/dL                    7% monos HCT 36.8                               2% eos                                                 1% baso RBC morph                         8 meta NC/NC                                  mod toxic gran                                                 Occ Dohle body Which test is most helpful in establishing a diagnosis?

Which governmental legislation has had the greatest impact on the health care industry?

Ketone bodies are found in the urine as a result of:

The most common cause of fatal transfusion reactions:

Source: sputum; small grayish-white colonies on BAP,gram positive cocci, that is catalase, bacitracin and optochin disc  and bile esculin negative.  It doesn’t grow in 6.5% NACl broth and is PYR negative. Choose the best answer:

The erythrocyte morphology would be described as macrocytic normochromic in which of these instances?

In a sputum culture from a patient with cystic fibrosis, you recover an aerobe that is oxidase positive and produces mucoid, brown, “gummy” colonies on MacConkey agar.  This organism is probably:

The principle of the Kleihauer-Betke test is:  

Thrombin’s function in hemostasis:         cleave fibrinogen         activate XIII         activate V and VIII         inactivate fibrinolysis         inactivate Va, VIIIa  

(continued from previous question)  Which procedure will be necessary to provide the safest transfusion?