261.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, malignancies, OB issues, tissue damage, transfusion of mismatched blood

What triggers DIC?

400

The type of clotting that most likely affects capillaries

What is MICROVASCULAR?

Diagnosis/Manifestations with DIC

100

Condition that happens to urine with DIC

hematuria

200

Name 2 neuro findings that might occur with bleeding DIC

What are changes in vision changes, dizziness, headache, mental status, and irritability?

300

Name 2 skin changes that may be signs of bleeding DIC

What are pallor, petechiae, purpura oozing blood, venipuncture site bleeding, hematoma?

400

Name 2 respiratory manifestations of thrombotic DIC

What are tachypnea, dyspnea, pulmonary emboli, &ARDS?

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 volume and providing oxygen?

300

Name the 3 blood products usually reserved for a patient with life-threatening hemorrhage

What are platelets, cryoprecipitate, and fresh frozen plasma?

400

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

What is fluid replacement?

Lab Time

100

This is what happens to platelet levels.

What is they decrease?

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?