Blood

Question 1

How much blood is out body weight

Answer 1

7%

about 6-7L in average human

Question 2

what is RBC carried on?

Answer 2

hemoglobin

Question 3

hematocrit is a measure of what?

Answer 3

% of blood that is Red blood cells (42-45%)

Question 4

how many red blood cells do you have in 1cc of blood?

Answer 4

4.5-5.5 miller per cc of blood

Question 5

how does your body generate heat?

Answer 5

when your cells metabolize they generate heat, and that heat is transferred to the blood, then the blood radiates the heat around the body.

Question 6

in a normal cell metabolism what should the acids (H+) be used for at the cell level?

Answer 6

to work in the Kreb cycle and electron transport chain to make ATP.

Question 7

when will there be a VQ mismatch (more CO2 in blood) than what CO2 is measured coming out of the pt?

Answer 7

when a pt has a PE

Question 8

how many types of white blood cells (leukocytes) are there?

Answer 8

5

Question 9

how doest blood clot?

Answer 9

use of platelets

Question 10

what are the formed elements of blood?

Answer 10

• erythrocytes (RBC)
  
  • 4.5-5.5 million
• Platelets
  
  • 250,000-400,000
• Leukocytes (WBC)
  
  • 2%, the rest lives in the tissues

Question 11

not having enough red blood cells is called?

Answer 11

anemia

- find out why they dont have enough red blood cells.

Question 12

why dont RBC reproduce?

Answer 12

they have no mitochondria

Question 13

what two type of WBC?

Answer 13

Granular and Agranular

Question 14

what are granular WBC?

Answer 14

eoxinophils
basophils
nutrophils

Question 15

What are agranular WBC?

Answer 15

Lymphocytes

Monocytes

Question 16

neutrophils

Answer 16

phagocytes (eat cells)

Question 17

eosinophils

Answer 17

effective against parasitic worms

Question 18

Basophils

Answer 18

inflammatory and allergic reactions

Question 19

lymphocytes

Answer 19

bacteria
virusis
natural killer cells

Question 20

platelets Thrombocyte

Answer 20

no nucleus
many granular
used to stop bleeding
chemical messengers

Question 21

what is INR?

Answer 21

the ratio and measure the bodies ability to create clots and plug.

Question 22

what is D-dimmer test?

Answer 22

measurement of dissolved clots

common taken to see if someone is actively bleeding

Question 23

what is the hemopoeitc stem cell?

Answer 23

the start of a creation cell, and it creates type of blood cell based of body needs.

Question 24

polycythemia vera

Answer 24

cyanotic looking (not enough O2 to attach to blood cells, and low pulse ox

inappropriate increase in red blood cells
Primary (rapid over production of red blood cells)

Usually cancer based

spontaneous bruising, less platelets because more red blood cells have been created.

Question 25

polycythemia

Answer 25

the creation of more blood cells, in response to something

ex: living at altitude, COPD, ect.

Question 26

Leukemia, how many types?

Answer 26

cancer, bone marrow cancer.

Acute: making too many
Chronic: not getting rid of them
Hair cell leukemia:

Question 27

why will leukemia be anemic?

Answer 27

they are not differentiating in making red blood cells and making more white blood cells.

Question 28

hemophilia

Answer 28

“love to bleed”

• they can not clot adequately
• body missing clotting factors
• genetic (get from mother)

Question 29

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

Answer 29

AIDs
Human R lymphotropic virus type III (HTLV-III) (HIV)

Blood to blood and semen to blood contact

Destroys T-cells, the cells the fight infection.

they will die from an infection, not AIDS itself

Question 30

what part of the blood carries clotting factors?

Answer 30

plasma