Blood Components
These formed elements cause the blood to clot.
What are platelets?
The four types of blood (ignore positives/negatives).
What is types A, B, AB, and O?
The blood cells that transport oxygen.
What are red blood cells?
The amount of blood pumped by each ventricle each minute (looking for a vocab term, not a number).
What is cardiac output?
Percentage of blood loss above which a person will probably go into shock.
What is 30%
White blood cells are also called this.
What are leukoytes?
The universal donor
What is O negative blood?
A blood disorder in which a person's blood does not clot normally.
What is hemophilia?
Stroke volume x heart rate
What is the cardiac output formula?
This is a competitive inhibitor for oxygen.
What is carbon monoxide?
The liquid part of blood.
What is plasma?
85% of the population have this RH factor.
What is Rh positive, Rh+?
The universal recipient.
What is AB+?
Stroke volume does this during exercise.
What is increases?
Three symptoms of CO exposure.
What are dizziness, achiness, and shortness of breath?
The length of a red blood cell's life.
What is 4 months?
These are "hairs" found on each RBC.
What are antigens?
This happens to a negative blood type after being introduced to positive blood for the first time.
What is Rh antibodies form/clumping?
Trained athletes' stroke volume is this compared to the general population.
What is higher?
Two recommendations to minimize CO exposure.
What are check appliances and get CO detectors.
These formed elements have no nucleus.
What are RBCs?
Found in blood, attack anything foreign to the body.
What are antibodies?
Fancy term for blood clotting/clumping.
What is agglutination?
Most of the body's blood goes here during exercise.
What is to the muscles?
Carbon monoxide is this many times more likely to bind with hemoglobin than oxygen.
What is over 200 times?