During metabolic acidosis, the body tries to compensate by

An increased RDW indicates which of the following?

A hazy cerebrospinal fluid  is submitted for evaluation. What can the CLS infer from this?

The above immunofixation electrophoresis indicates that this patient has a gammopathy composed of

Which of the following platelet aggregation results is routinely seen when testing platelets from a patient with Glanzmann’s thrombasthenia?

An ICD-9 code is related to:

An acid-fast bacillus from a sputum specimen grows on Lowenstein-Jensen medium in 12 days as pale buff colonies. A light test is performed after which there appears to be no color change. The isolate is niacin positive, nitrate positive and tellurite negative. What is the likely identification of the isolate?

Given the following objective, determine the best audiovisual aid to augment learning: “At the end of the lecture, the student will be able to correctly identify a hyaline cast in a urine sediment.”

Which of the following anticoagulants can be used to provide an acceptable sample for most blood bank procedures?

Which is NOT an interference for the urine reagent strip test for leukocyte esterase?