Basics of Bleeding Disorders
The most common type of bleeding disorder
What is Von-Willebrand's Disease?
The blood vessel on your hand or arm that is used for infusions, colored greenish-blue
What is a vein?
An example of a safe activity for someone with a bleeding disorder.
What is swimming, biking, dancing, etc.
What is a teacher, parent, or trusted adult?
This is bleeding disorders awareness month.
What is March?
The factor missing from people with hemophilia B
What is Factor 9? (Factor IX)
The type of doctor that treats bleeding disorders
What is a Hematologist?
This is what you should do when you get a nosebleed.
What is lean forward, gently blow your nose into a tissue, and pinch the bridge of your nose?
Two types of school staff that should know if you have a bleeding disorder
What are your teachers and school nurse?
A type of bleed that can occur without any known cause or injury.
What is a spontaneous bleed?
True or false: only boys can have bleeding disorders.
This is what PRICE (or RICE) stands for, and it is how bleeds are commonly treated.
What is Protect, Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation?
A bleed in this location can be very serious. (Name three body parts)
What are the head, neck, chest, stomach, spine, or groin? (any three)
People with bleeding disorders often learn how to self-infuse at this place.
What is camp?
Some people with bleeding disorders wear this on their wrist or around their neck everyday.
What is a medical alert bracelet or necklase?
The total number of factor proteins in the blood.
13
The location where you can be seen by a hematologist, physical therapist, and social worker in the same place!
What is a Hemophilia Treatment Center? (HTC)
A joint that may bleed repeatedly in someone with a bleeding disorder, commonly ankles or knees
What is a target joint?
People with bleeding disorders take this with them on a field trip or when travelling.
The national organization that advocates for all bleeding disorders, including hemophilia, von Willebrand disease, and rare factor deficiencies.
What is the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation?
Sticky parts of your blood that connect to form clots.
A term for taking regular treatment to prevent bleeds
What is prophylaxis?
The natural percentage (%) of factor 8 in someone with severe, moderate, and mild hemophilia A. (list three percentages)
What is less than 1% (severe), 5% (moderate), and 40-50% (mild)?
The name of the educational website for people with bleeding disorders at each stage of life.
What is Steps For Living?
Bonus scenario: Imagine your friend at school asked why you have a Band-Aid on your hand. Explain your (or your sibling's) bleeding disorder to them. If you are playing as a group, choose someone to speak.
To get credit for this bonus round, you correctly explained what a bleeding disorder is and which one you have (hemophilia, Von Willebrand's, etc.) and why you have a Band-Aid (bleed or infusion).