CBC
There are 4000-10,000 cells/mcL of these cells in the body.
What is WBC?
The physiological process that stops bleeding at the site of an injury.
What is hemostasis?
A clotting pathway that is measured by prothrombin time.
What is extrinsic pathway?
The primary site of hematopoiesis (where blood cell lines are produced).
What is the bone marrow?
This disease develops as a result of increased lipid levels.
What is atherosclerosis?
Someone with history of allergy or parasitic infection will have an increased value of this
What are eosinophils?
This cell type is necessary for primary hemostasis
What is a platelet?
A physical finding that occurs when valves do not function properly leading pooling in the lower legs.
What is Varicose veins?
an immature RBC
What is a reticulocyte?
The 6 P's of arterial disease.
A condition that causes a high reticulocyte count and low hemoglobin
What is bleeding, hemolytic anemia, aplastic anemia?
These are the labs that should be obtained in a patient with bleeding symptoms.
What is CBC with platelet count, retic, peripheral blood smear, PT, and PTT?
3 substances involved in fibrinolysis
What is plasminogen, tPA and plasmin?
A hormone made be the kidney in response to low oxygen in the bloodstream
What is erythropoietin?
The cardiac output of a man with a heart rate of 75 beats per minute was found to have 90mL of blood in his left ventricle during systole.
What is 4725mL/min?
Granules are present in these blood cells
What are neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils?
Hemophilia is a result of a deficiency in these coagulation factors
What is factor 8 and factor 9?
5 risk factors for DVT
What is endothelial damage, venous stasis, hypercoagulable disease, obesity, cancer, surgery, smoking and recent surgical procedure?
3 mature cells that generate from the myeloid stem cell line
What is erythrocyte, megakaryocyte, neutrophil, basophil, eosinophil, monocyte?
These two areas in the body are most common areas for aneurysm development.
What is the aorta and cerebral artery?
A patient experiencing neutropenia, thrombocytopenia and anemia at the same time is likely experiencing this problem.
What is bone marrow failure?
The steps of the final common pathway
prothrombin > thrombin > fibrinogen > fibrin >factor 13
Warfarin is a vitamin K inhibitor used to inhibit these coagulation factors
What is factor II, VII, IX, X?
Lymphatic tissue is found in these 6 sites of the body
What are the thymus, bone marrow, spleen, tonsils, appendix and lymph nodes?
5 diagnostic evaluators of hypertension
What is glucose, urinalysis, EKG, proteinuria, blood chemistries, CBC?