Lab 3 Flashcards
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What is haemostasis?
Haemostasis is the name of a group of processes initiated in the body in order to stop bleeding in case of tissue
and/or blood vessel injuries.
What is Bleeding time?
Measure of the time from the appearance of the first drop of blood until the cessation of bleeding.
What tests can you use for coagulation time and how do you carry them out?
Clotting time on a watch glass,
Clotting time in plastic syringe,
Clotting time in glass tube,
Clotting time in activated clotting time tube.
What is coagulation in an ACT test tube?
Si02 with fresh blood to check the coagulation at 37c. SiO2 activates the contact Factor XII (Hagemann factor). Activated Factor XII activates Factor IX and kallikreinogen, kinigogen (fibronolytic pathway).
How long does each test take to coagulate?
Watch glass: 7-15 min
Plastic syringe: 10-12 min
Glass tube: 4-5 min
ACT tube: 3 min
What are the causes of thrombocytopenia?
Decrecreased production of thrombocytes in the bone marrow,
increased utilization of thrombocytes, (DIC),
increased destruction of thrombocytes autoimmune thrombocytopenia (AITP),
increased sequestration of thrombocytes
Which factors are dependent on vitamin K?
Proconvertin (Factor 7), Christmas (Factor 9), Stuart Prower (Factor 10), and Prothrombin (Factor 2)
What is prothrombin time?
Gives information about the function of the extrinsic pathway because the coagulation cascade is
triggered by adding tissue factor.
How long is a normal PT?
10-15 seconds
What is APTT?
Activated partial thromboplastin time – gives information on the function of the intrinsic pathway
through the provision of surface activation.
How long is a normal APTT?
20-30 seconds
What is the general platelet count?
200-800 x 10 to the 9
What is DIC?
Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy. Secondary problem where microthrombus formation
and fibrinolysis are present at many different places in the body simultaneously because of severe
tissue damage or necrosis
Which clotting factor was messed up with Von Willebrands disease?
Factor VIII is deficient
What are the major groups of haemostasis disorders?
Vasculopathy, Thrombocytopathy, Coagulopathy
What tests were used to investigate coagulopathies?
Bleeding time, (buccal mucosal bleeding time test,) clotting time, clotting time on different
surfaces, clot retraction time.
What tests investigate platelet count (can´t remember the exact phrasing of her question there but it´s
pretty much what she wanted.)
Blood smear test, automatic cell counters, Burker chamber count
What is the clot retraction test?
The measure of the decrease in clot size with a contractile protein called thrombostenin. Slower or no contraction happening is a sign of thrombocytopathy
In dicumarol posioning what is increased?
The PT and APTT is increased
How can you count platelets in a sample?
Burker chamber (haemocytometer), blood smear, automatic cell counters.
Which hemostatic disorder lead to more sever clinical signs, thrombocytpathys or coagulopathys?
Thrombocytopathy as there is no connection between thrombocyte-thrombus
Shortest coagulation factor life time?
(7) 3 minutes with the CT in ACT
Which factor is involved in measuring thrombin time?
(13)
Time until the first fibrin strain?
1-2 minutes