DIC

What is DIC?

100

DIC begins with an excessive amount of this.

What is CLOTTING?

200

This is the earliest and most obvious sign of DIC in someone who's never had it before.

What is BLEEDING?

300

Shock, sepsis, placenta abrupto, OB issues, allergic reactions, toxins

What triggers DIC?

400

The type of clotting that most likely affects cutaneous capillaries

What is MICROVASCULAR?

500

In the early stages of D.I.C, a lot of this is formed (intra-vascular) that speeds the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin.

What is THROMBIN?

Diagnosis/Manifestations with DIC

100

Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Gangrene, Renal Failure

What are complications of DIC?

200

This is what happens to the skin during D.I.C.

What is bruising or pallor or ooze blood?

300

Condition that happens to urine with DIC

hematuria

400

D.I.C manifests a level of this that is out of proportion to how much blood the person is actually losing

What is shock, hypovolemia? 

500

Increased D-Dimer assay.

Diagnostic test indicating diagnosis of DIC.

Treatment

100

The first priority in treatment of DIC

What is to determine and treat the underlying cause?

200

Goals in treatment of D.I.C.

What are restoring hemostasis and maintaining fluid volume? 

300

Monitor this lab study when a patient is receiving heparin intravenously.

What is Activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT)?

400

Helps restore blood pressure, cardiac output, and urine output due to blood loss.

What is fluid replacement?

500

These are two components of replacement therapy.

What are Platelets, and FFP?

Lab Time

100

The normal range is 150,000 to 400,000

What are Platelets?

200

This is what happens to Serum fibrinogen in DIC

What is they decrease?

300

What happens to PT and PTT

What is they increase?

400

This is what happens to the d-dimer lab value

What is it increases?

500

This is what happens to platelet levels.

What is they decrease?