Platelets
Name that Test
Tubes and depts.
Hemostasis DZ etc
hodge podge
100
This what it is called when platelets stick to each other
What is adhesion?
100
evaluates the extrinsic system of the coagulation cascade and monitors Coumadin Therapy
What is PT (Prothrombin time)?
100
CBC, HH, ESR, SICKLE CELL SCREENING
What is lavender top tube and Hematology?
100
A dificiency of this factor will cause Hemophilia B
What is factor IX?
100
What type of blood can not be used to perform a PT
What is serum?
200
What substances causes "shape change" in platelets
What is collagen?
200
Complete Blood Count
What is CBC?
200
PT, PTT, APTT, bleeding time, thromboplastin time
What is Light-Blue top tube and coagulation?
200
Eating Green leafy vegatable will shorten the results of this test
What is PT?
200
when you have stopped bleeding and the clot starts to dissolve, fibrinolysis releases this
What is fibrin and fibrinogen degredation products (FDPs)?
300
Aspirin can knock out platelet activity for this may days.
What is up to 14 days?
300
Activated thromboplastin time and evaluates intrinsic pathway and monitors Heparin therapy
What is APTT?
300
This is the additive in the lavender tube,
What is EDTA?
300
These are small little red spots that occur with a low platelet count
What is petechia?
300
Fibrin Degredation Products is a useful test to help diagnose this (2 things)
What is DIC, DVT, PE?
400
In this inherited platelet disorder the patient has thrombocytopenia and very large platelets
What is Bernard Soulis Syndrom
400
This test looks at the platelet function NOT the platelet quantity
What is Bleeding Time
400
What is the additive in the blue top tube
What is sodium citrate?
400
What spread bleeding and clotting, that can develope from a serious infection, or crush injury
What is desseminated intravascular coagulation DIC
400
When testing for D-dimers such as the Remel test it can detect this
What is XDP fragments?
500
This is and inherited disease that many times is confused with the Hemophilias.
What is von Willebrands Dz.
500
IF the bleeding time is prolonged what test is normally ordered then
What is platelet aggregation or platelet function test?
500
You need to remember this as a phlebotomist when it comes to drawing aPTT (2 things)
What is making sure that there is a 1:9 ratio and that there is very little hemolysis.
500
Name 3 things that can have an effect on your PT results.
What is diet, Vitamin K intake/deficiency, liver dz, alocholism, intestinal malabsorption or even a very deep cut?
500
will a vitamin K deficiency give you a shortened or a prolonged aPTT?
Vitamin K deficiency will give you a prolonged aPTT
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