Blood Components
These cells are responsible for carrying oxygen throughout the body.
What are red blood cells (erythrocytes)?
The universal blood donor has this blood type.
What is O negative?
This disorder occurs when the blood lacks enough healthy red blood cells.
What is anemia?
List 2 clinical manifestations (signs and symptoms) of anemia
True or false: Anti-D serum causes clumping when the blood is negative.
What is False
These are the smallest blood cells and help in clot formation.
What are platelets (thrombocytes)?
A person with A positive blood can donate to individuals with these blood types.
What are A positive and AB positive?
A genetic disorder where blood doesn’t clot normally due to a lack of clotting factors.
What is hemophilia?
Best treatment for anemia
What is diet change... (ex: red meats, spinach, iron-rich foods)
Normal WBC range
What is 4,000-10,000
This component of blood contains proteins such as albumin and clotting factors.
What is plasma?
This is the protein antigen that may or may not be present on red blood cells, determining if blood is positive or negative.
What is the Rh factor?
This blood disorder results in the production of abnormal, crescent-shaped red blood cells.
What is sickle cell anemia?
Condition which starts in the bone marrow and produces abnormal plasma cells
What is multiple myeloma?
A patient takes a blood typing test and is AB-. Which anti serums have shown a reaction?
What are Anti A and Anti B?
These white blood cells play a key role in immune response.
What are leukocytes?
How are blood types determined?
What is proteins called antigens on the RBCs?
This type of cancer affects the blood and bone marrow, causing an overproduction of abnormal white blood cells.
What is leukemia?
3 symptoms of hemophilia
What is bleeding, bruising, joint pain, hematoma
Main purpose of antibodies
What is to recognize foreign invaders and destroy them
The composition of plasma is _% water and _% other components
What is 92% and 8%?
A pregnant patient is Rh (-), and the baby is Rh (-). What injection will be needed during pregnancy and after delivery?
A genetic disorder where blood doesn’t clot normally due to low platelets
What is thrombocytopenia?
This process describes the destruction and recycling of red blood cells, primarily in the spleen
What is hemolysis?
Explain why and when a patient may need to receive RhoGAM.
RhoGAM is usually given to Rh-negative mothers during the second trimester of pregnancy, and again within a few days after delivery if the baby is Rh-positive.
RhoGAM prevents the mother's immune system from producing antibodies that attack the Rh-positive blood cells of the fetus