Laboratory Procedures
One of the ten domains the VTNE is built from. Every question here is checked against a textbook on the official reference list.
- Share of the exam
- 9%
- Scored items on the VTNE
- 14 of 150
- Questions ready here
- 93
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Laboratory Procedures is 14 of the VTNE’s 150 scored items. No account needed for these, answers included. The explanations cover why the right answer is right and why the others aren’t, and every answer shows the textbook it came from and where to find it.
Item count: AAVSB 2023 Veterinary Technician National Examination Content Outline, approved by the AAVSB Board of Directors, March 2023. Retrieved 2026-08-15.
- A dog is presented for epistaxis and the in-house analyzer flags a low platelet count. You examine a…
- A hospitalized dog's serum chemistry panel is run in the clinic. One value comes back that makes no sense for…
- An unexpected in-house result prompts you to re-run the sample on the same analyzer by the same method.…
- A 13-year-old hyperthyroid cat has lost a great deal of muscle over the past several months. On the chemistry…
- A farm dog from a sheep-raising area is being screened for Echinococcus. A fecal flotation shows…
Skills this domain tests
The 4 skills the AAVSB lists under this domain. Every question here is written against one of them, and the same list is on the exam blueprint.
- Utilize knowledge of anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology as it applies to laboratory procedures.
- Prepare and maintain specimens and documentation for in-house or outside laboratory evaluation.
- Perform laboratory tests and procedures (including but not limited to microbiology, serology, cytology, hematology, urinalysis, and parasitology).
- Maintain laboratory equipment and related supplies to ensure safety and quality of results.