MARCH 2019 BOARD EXAMINATION RECALLS

PAALALA: Hindi sakto or magkatugma tanong nagawa ko dito at sa boards, eto ay gabay lamang. 😊

– Jeikeium, RMT ™

RANDOM SUBJECTS

• Last step in hand washing

Answer: Use towel to turn off faucet.

• What is the color of trash bag for BIODEGREDABLE?

Answer: Green

• MDRD (Modification of Diet in Renal Disease)

Answer: Serum Alb & BUN

• What will be the urine pH if you eaten vegetable?

Answer: Alkaline Urine

• Not a first morning specimen

Answer: Urobilinogen

• Formalin:
a. Slightly hypertonic
b. Hypertonic
c. Hypotonic
d. Hypertonic

Tricky choices :D

• Elimination of substance, related to plasma …… (hindi ko na maala ung susunod)

a. Excretion
b. Urination
c. Clearance
d. N/A

• Few particulates, print easily seen through urine.

Answer: Hazy

• Associate to melanuria:
a. Homogentisic
b. Tyrosinuira

(Pili ka na lang jan kung ano sagot mo hehe)

• Desiccant purpose on reagent strip

• AER (eto ung sagot, nalimutan ko na yung tanong)

• Distinct Turbidity with no granulation

Answer: +1

• hCG Kit:
a. Immunologic
b. Precipitation
c. Chemical
d. N/A

• Test used for Urobilinogen, Porphobilinogen and Other Ehrlich

Answer: Watson Schwartz

• Microscope for Urine Cast

Answer: Phase contrast

• Squamous epithelial cell

Answer: RFMM/LPF (Rare, Few, Moderate, Many per Low Power Field)

• Most common fecal contaminant in urine?

Answer: Enterobius vermicularis

• Causing turbidity in Alkaline urine

a. PUS cells
b. Urates
c. Phosphates

• What type of hypersensitivity is Bronchial Asthma?

Answer: Bronchial Asthma

• Charcot Leyden Crystal (Answer yan, nalimutan ko yung tanong hehe sorry :D)

• Bluish White
Answer: Live sperm

• Tube 2:
Answer: Microbiology

• Color of Benedict’s solution in patient with glycosuria: (Pili na lang kayo jan HAHA)
a. Orange
b. Red
• Saponin reagent is used in what test in Hematology Section?
Answer: (nalimutan ko na ung sagot ko HAHA, pahanap na lang thanks)

• Color of gastric fluid

Answer: Pale Gray

• Test for Giardia lamblia

Answer: Entero string test

• Reagent in Foam Stability Index

Answer: 95% Ethanol

• Dark Red Brown Amniotic Fluid

Answer: Fetal death

• Spectrophotometric
Answer: Bilirubin or HDN (Hemolytic disease of the newborn)

• Guiac test FOBT:

Answer: Pseudoperoxidase

• Color for Bilirubin diazo reaction

Answer: Purple (Remember: “BLK / BKLA” [Bilirubin, Leukocyte, Ketones])

• From bright field to dark field:

Answer: Split aperture or Condenser (Isa jan ung sagot hehe)

• Calcium oxalate:
Answer: Envelope

• Leukemia, Lymphoma
Answer: Uric acid

• If pupuntahan mom o daw ung pasyente sa enteric isolation, ano daw ang PPE?
a. Mask
b. Gown and Mask
c. Gown and Gloves (eto ata sagot idk haha pa search na lang :D)

• Interstitial nephritis
Answer: Eosinophil in urine

• Hyposthenuria
 • Variation in size
Answer: Anisocytosis

• Part of platelet used for platelet aggregation and ATP …..

a. Peripheral
b. Sol gel zone
c. Membrane
d. Organelle

• Dithionate HbS
Answer: (+) Turbidity

• Not Serine protease:

Answer: HMWK/FITZGERALD? (IDK BASTA NASA CHOICES YAN)

• Anong factor daw wala sa cryoprecipitate

Answer: Factor IX

• Fibrinogen Level in DIC

Answer: Decrease

• Decrease RBC and MCHC, Increase MCV?

Answer: Cold agglutinin

• Vitamin K antagonist (Antagonist to factor 10, 9, 7, 2, Protein C & S)

a. Heparin
b. Coumadin

• Endothelial, Macropage, Adipocytes, Fibroblasts

Answer: Stromal Cells

• Largest megakaryocytic series in Bone Marrow

a. CFU-megakaryocyte
b. Megakaryocyte
c. Megakaryoblast

• If more than 5 nRBC per 100 WBC in Adults. If more that 10 nRBC per 100 in children.
Asnwer: Correction of WBC

• Error that is always CONSTANT

a. Constant
b. Proportional
c. Trend
 • Adult Gauge and needle
Answer: 21, 1.5

• Computation sa MCV :D (may 1point ka na).

• Formula ng MCV ( 2points na)

• Shift to left
Answer: Increase oxygen affinity

• Iron overload (tungkol sa iron overload sa BB)

• Last stage of mitosis

a. Polychromatophilic erythroblast
b. Myelocyte
Pili nlng HAHA

• Dohle like bodies

Answer: May hegglin

• ALL and M6 (Erythroleukemia)

Answer: PAS

• Other name of ME and M2

• Fletcher
Answer: Prekallikrein

• Stem cell mobilization

I. II – 2
II. II – 3
III. G-CSF
IV. GM-CSF

Morse type to

• Fanconi syndrome (sagot yan, nalimutan ko na ung tanong sorry)

• Saliva
Answer: Dimer Ig

• Not anaphylatoxins
Answer: C6
• Primary Biliary Cirrhosis
Answer: Anti-mitochondrial

• Mancini
Answer: Endpoint

• Kell null
Answer: Leach type

• Ilang oras daw pwedeng nasa ordinary ref ang isang blood unit bago malagay sa standard na ref
ng BB:
a. Six
b. Eight
c. Two
d. Four

• Introduced by Landsteiner and Levine

Answer: P blood group

• Anti IgG and Anti C3d (sagot or tanong ata to yan lang naalala ko sorry)

• Most common monoclonal AHG

a. IgG
b. C3d

(PILI NA HAHAHA)

• FNHTR and TRALI (ANSWER TO)

• Apoptosis
Answer: Caspases enzyme

• Stock solution ng formalin

Answer: 37 – 40%

• Fat
Answer: Oil red O

• Pre analytical, Analytical, Post Analytical

• Which do not belong to good behavior

a. Religious (eto sagot ko HAHA)
b. Fairness
c. Respect
d. Professionalism
• Meaning of Pyuria

• Gaano kalaki ung drop ng blood for blood smear:

a. 2-3?
b. 2-4?
c. 1-4?

• Ano daw ung specimen na pedeng isend sa lab alone for viral culture? (Parang ganyan)
A. Nasopharyngeal swab
B. CSF
(Tas ung iba e parang mga dry specimen)

• Retrovirus:
A. HIV
B. HTLV 1

• Psychrophilic bacteria, rare cause of blood bag contamination

A. Pseudomonas
B. Tubercle bacilli
(Di ko na matandaan iba)

• May tanong din related sa hepatitis. Ung about sa screening something. Kung yun bang
screening ng donor sa hep or screening ng blood unit ganun

• Acridine orange
Answer: Nucleic acid

• Anti- A: negative
Anti-B: negative
A cells: negative
B cells: negative
O cell: negative
Autocontrol: negative

A. Type O (eto sagot ko 😊 )

B. Boombay
C. Cannot be determine

• Specific for Salmonella and Shigella (parang ganyan)

A. Mac
B. XLD
• BAP composition:
A. Nutrient and sheep agar
B. Sodium.....???

• Positive control for Indole

Answer: E. coli

• Positive control for Gram (+)

Answer: S. aureus

• Many colorless colonies in Mac Sorbitol

Answer: E. coli 0157:H7

• PYR(+)
✓ Beta hemolytic
✓ Bacitracin (+)
✓ S. Pyogenes

• Lecithinase (+)
✓ Reverse CAMP (+)
✓ Hemolysis (+)
✓ Perfringens

• N. Gonorrhea and N. Meningitis

Answer: Thayer Martin

• Chancroid. (2 times po itong tinanong)

Answer: H. ducreyi

• (+) Nitrate, nitrite

✓ Serpentine cord
A. M. Bovis
B. M. Tb

• Not true of Enterobacteriaceae

A. Catalase neg
B. Oxidase neg
C. Nitrate reduction pos
D. All ferment glucose
 ✓ H2s pos
✓ Urea neg
✓ LDC neg

A. Citrobacter
B. Proteus
C. E. Coli
D. Enterobacter

• Feline feces something

A. Cat scratch fever
B. Toxoplasma

• May tanong din dun na ano daw ung irereport sa physician once nakita sa stool?
A. E. Dispar
B. E. Coli

• Stain parasites
A. Lugols Iodine
B. Grams iodine

• Gold standard sa Malaria

Answer: Giemsa

• Para san daw ang VDRL

Answer: Syphilis

• Ano daw ung nangangailangan ng warmth environment ata un from unembryonated to

embryonated ata tas basta oral feca route siya
Answer: Ascaris? (not sure tho)

• Wandering itch? (hindi ko na maalala yunh pagpipilian)

• Barbers Pole
Answer: Parastrongylus cantonensis

• Meron din ung parang mott like egg ba un hahahaha

• Candida
Answer: Blastospore chlamydospores

• San daw nalolocate ang translation? Ribosome @ cytoplasm?

• Cytokines are produced by
A. White cells and other tissue cells
B. Granulocytes and NK cells

• Fresh water fish

Answer: D. Latum

• Pollen grain
Answer: D. caninum?

• Pseudophyllidean; operculated
Answer: D. Latum

• Used by cestode para daw makaattached sa intestinal keme:

A. Mouth
B. Scolex
C. Proglottid

• Ung may male and female daw na trematode

Answer: Schistosome?

• 70% recirculated saka 30% recirculated? II A?

• No recirculation? I????

• Not PPE
A. HEPA
B. Hand sanitizer (eto sagot ko haha pero parang A eh)

• Cause and effect chart

A. Workflow
B. Pareto
C. Fishbone ganyan ata

• Not qualitative daw sa Hema

A. Hgb SS
B. Hgb SA
C. Hgb S - Hgb C
D. Hgb CC

• Ung parang same morphology daw ng S. haematobium

A. S. mansoni
B. S. japonicum
C. S. interculatum
• Large terminal spine
Answer: S. Haematobium

• Tzank
Answer: VZV?

• San daw po maaisolate ang aerobic microbe sa broth or tube ba un.

A. Top
B. Middle
C. Bottom

• Malarial cases:
A. All
B. Palawan (eto sagot ko :D)
C. Tanay Rizal
D. Quezon Province

• Black fly:
Answer: O. Volvulus

• Leishmaniasis
Answer: cutaneous, visceral, mucocutaneous

• Hazard
Answer: poisonous, corrosive, carcinogenic

• Chain of infection
Answer: source, MOT, susceptible host

• Producing pigment either with light or at dark: scotochromogen DOTS:

A. DSSM
B. AFB

• ano daw ung parang makakainterfere sa stool exam:

A mineral oil
B. Cooking oil
C. Hair dye

• ssRNA capsid with envelope

A. Corona
B. Flavi
C. Adeno
D. Filo
• Plerocercoid
Answer: IS of D. Latum?

• Metacercariae
Answer: IS of cestode?

• Total Protein conversion factor: 10

Given: 8
Answer: 80

• Glucose conversion factor:

Answer: 0.0555 (mahaba yung nakasulat sa questionnaire)

• Severe Hypercalcemia and Hypoalbuminemia (Low anion gap)

• Creamy layer: CM
• Standing plasma test

• Endogenous TAG: VLDL

• UV light is
A. Slightly short
B. Very short
C. Slightly long
D. Very long

• Drug that Do not affect CNS:

A. Barbiturates
B. Benzo....
C. Methotrexate
D. Cannabinoids...

• Shift (Remember: GTAS)

• No SMS Ex (dalawang beses lumabas)

• Causing hyponatremia due to water imbalance:

I. Severe burn
II. CHF (RF. Di ko maalala if Renal failure or CHF sya)
III. SIADH
IV. Pseudohyponatremia
Morse type
• R4S

• Urea measurement that is more specific but expensive

• BEST measurement of Serum Crea:

A. Cystatin
B.
C.
D. None of the above
(Walang inulin sa choices eeee)

• Not belong to Liver function test

A. Bilirubin
B. Enzymes
C. Factor assay
D. Prothrombin

• Significant once decreased

Answer: Cholinesterase

• Test for patency of bile

Answer: Ratio of Direct Bili to Total Bili.

• Increase ALP 5x
Answer: Bone tumor (yan lang po natandaan ko 😂)

• Transferrin
Answer: Beta Globulin

• Isoenzyme:
Answer: Multiple ….

• ALT no Isoenzymes

• Exhibits Diurnal Variation:

✓ Thyroxine
✓ Iron
✓ Calcium

• Anong Bilirubin ung makikita sa ihi?

Answer: Conjugated
• What is the purpose of exchange transfusion sa neonates?
A.
B. To remove bilirubin sa circulation ni baby (di ko na po matandaan ung ibaaaaa)

• IDDM (di ko alam if eto mismooo ung words sinagot ko kasi all of the above 😂)
A. Beta cell destruction
B. At juvenile
C. Prone to ketoacidosis
D. All of the above

• at 40 years old Moderate Risk

Answer: 240 mg/dl

• Not causing hyponatremia due to water imbalance:

A. RF
B. CHF
C.
D. Pseudohyponatremia

• HDL posive Risk

Answer: 40 mg/dl

• Hormones involved in regulation of calcium:

✓ PTH
✓ Vit. D
✓ Calcitonin

• Not belong to major LP:

A. VLDL
B. HDL
C. Lp(x)
D LDL

• Minor LP
Answer: IDL and Lp(a)

• Counterion
Answer: Chloride

• True about potassium:

A.
B.
C. Major cation
D. Positively charged
• Hindi kasama sa water analysis keme:
A. Potassium
B. Lead
C. Thermotsutsu coliforms
D. Arsenic

• AMI:
I. Mababa CO2
II. Metabolic acidosis
III. Mababa O2
(Parang ganyann) morse type

• Drugs na di ginagamitan ng TDM:

I.
II. Acetaminophen
III. Ibuprofen
Morse type. Dalawang roman numeral lagi ung nasa choices eee.

• Positive displacement
Answer: piston, capillary, piston seal

• Horizontal head
Answer: swinging bucket

• Pag daw natapunan ng chemical sa mata

Answer: Boric Acid

• One that secretes ADH

Answer: Pituitary

• Hindi daw nagpoproduce ng hormone (parang ganyan ung tanong)

A. Liver
B.
C. Pancreas
D. Skin

• Producing HCl from parietal is triggered by Gastrin

• Protenuria
Answer: Nephrotic syndrome

• Oligoclonal bands
Answer: “MS NENG”
• AMI enzymes
Answer: AST and LDH

• Hindi daw kasama during inflammation:

A. Increase capillary permeability
B. Migration of lymphocytes
C. Release (parang eto ung term) of haptoglobin
D. CRO release

• CRP
• Related sa cholesterol
Answer: Serum amyloid

• Protein INSIDE cell:

A. Transferrin
B. Ferritin

• Michaelis menten equation:

✓ E + S to E - S to E + P
✓ Vo= Vmax (s) over Km + (S)

• Acid base balance and OXYGENATION studies

A. Arterial blood gas
B. Blood ph keme

• Ilang hours daw natutunaw or nadidigest ung glucose parang ganun

• Anong protein daw nagsstay sa negative electrode

Answer: Gamma

• BP cuff as tourniquet should be more than

Answer: 40 mmHg
Ung ibang choices ata e mga 25 35 ganun

• Dilutions:
✓ 1st suspension meron kang 100ul na sample tas dinagdagan mo ng 100ul ng NSS.
Then out of this, kumuha ka ng 50ul tas dinagdagan mo pa ng 50ul ng NSS. Same
process hanggang sa 5th tube. Ano daw ang concentration sa third suspension?
A. 1:20
B. 1:400
C. 1:80
D. 1:40
 • Proportion off...all positive results. (Yan lang talaga sinabi, walang nakalagay kung tested
positive and talagang maysakit walang ganun ganun
A. Positive predictive
B. Sensitivity
C. Specificity...

• Increase WBC in glucose testing

Answer: substantial reduction

• Ung tap used daw sa synovial for glucose testing (di ko alam if synov ba or csf)
A. Na fluoride
B. Heparin

• Calcitonin
• Answer: Thyroid keme marker.

• Fire type A: Wood

• Fire type C: Electric

• Something related sa Cardiovascular status ng pasyente:

A. Fistula
B. Syncope
(Yung ibang term ang lalim di ko tanda)

• Internal Lab qc:

• Delta check and west. Rule

• Tachometer
Answer: measure the speed of centri RPM????

• Not true of discrete analyzer

Answer: continuous tubing or flow? Something ganyan

• Tas meron din sa Intra or extrahepatic obstruction

• Enzyme activation
Answer: Mg, Ca, Zn

• Dark purple tas may cyanide odor ata yun

Answer: C. Violaceum

• Centrifuge na swing bucket tas ung sagot ung other name nya :D

SALAMAT SANA MAKATULONG! GOODLUCK AND GOD BLESS! – Jeikeium, RMT ™