Hematology Flashcards

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What does high WBC and High PMN’s tell you?

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Stress demargination. (Stress response - post trauma)

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What does a high WBC and <5% Blasts tell you?

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Leukemoid reaction - seen in burn patients or any extreme stress
(extreme demargination looks like Leukemia), Metamyelocytes => Myelocytes

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What does high WBC and Bands tell you?

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Left shift - they have an infection

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What does high WBC and >5% Blasts tell you?

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Leukemia

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What does high WBC and B Cells tell you?

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Bacterial infection

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What diseases have high eosinophils?

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"NAACP"
N - Neoplasm (Lymphoma)
A - Allergy/ Asthma
A - Addison's disease (no cortisol -relative eosinophilia)
C - Collagen Vascular disease (lupus)
P - Parasites
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What diseases have high Monocytes (>15%)?

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"STELS"
Syphilis: chancre, rash, warts
TB: Hemoptysis, night sweats
EBV: Teen sick for a month
Listeria: Sick baby
Salmonella: Food poisoning
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What do high Retics (>1%) tell you?

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RBC is being destroyed peripherally

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What do low reticulocytes tell you?

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Decreased production of bone marrow - not working right

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What is Poikilocytosis?

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RBC’s of different shapes

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What is Anisocytosis?

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RBC’s with different sizes

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12
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What is the RBC normal lifespan?

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120 days

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What is the RBC lifespan when there is a problem?

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60-90 days (same time as the shelf life of blood bank units)

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14
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What is the Platelet lifespan?

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7 days

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What does “Penia” tell you?

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Low Levels - (Usually due to virus or drugs)

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16
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What does “Cytosis” tell you?

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High levels

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17
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What does “Cythemia” tell you?

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High levels

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18
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What is the difference between Plasma and Serum?

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Plasma: No RBC’s
Serum: No RBC’s or Fibrinogen

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What are the Microcytic Hypochromic Anemias?

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Defect in Hb synthesis (RBC small and pale) "FAST lead"
F - Fe Deficiency
A - Anemia of Chronic Disease
S - Sideroblastic Anemia
T - Alpha and Beta Thalassemia's
L - Lead poisoning
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What will you see with Iron Deficiency Anemia?

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Increased TIBC(total iron binding capacity) associated with menses, GI bleeding, and Koilonychia (spooning of nails)

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What will you see with Anemia of Chronic Disease?

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Decreased TIBC (total iron binding capacity)

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What will you see with Sideroblastic Anemia?

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Decreased dALA synthase common with blood transfusions

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23
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What will you see with Alpha Thalassemia?

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Seen in African Americans and Asian Americans (Chromosome 16- deletion)

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What will you see in Beta Thalassemia?

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Seen in Mediterranean’s

chromosome 11- point mutation

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What will you see in Lead Poisoning?

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Decreased dALA dehydrogenase
decreased Ferrochelatase
blue lines on x-ray
history of eating old paint chips

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What are the Megaloblastic Anemias?

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Vitamin B-12 Deficiency
folate deficiency
alcohol

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What are some causes of Vitamine B12 deficiency?

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Tapeworms
Veganism
Type A gastritis
Pernicious Anemia

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What are some causes of Folate Deficiency?

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Old food, you will see Glossitis(inflammation of tongue) with the patient

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29
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What is the effect of Alcohol on the fetus?

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FAS (Fetal Alcohol Syndrome)
Smooth philtrum (space between nose- mouth, normal people have dimple) 
short
polyclonal
midface hypoplasia
thin superior Vermilion border
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30
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What are the Intravascular Hemolytic Anemias?

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IgM cold autoimmune

G6PD deficiency

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What are some causes of G6PD Deficiency?

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Sulfa drugs, mothballs, fava beans, sudden drop in Hb

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What are some causes of Cold Autoimmune?

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Mono
Mycoplasma infection
Antibody (IgM) bind to RBC’s membrane
cold temp and causes agglutination

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What are the Extravascular Hemolytic anemias?

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Spherocytosis
warm autoimmune
Paroxysmal cold autoimmune
Sickle cell anemia

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What is seen in Spherocytosis?

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Defective Spherin or Ankyrin
Positive Osmotic Fragility test
High level of MCHC (Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration)
teardrops cells

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What is seen in Warm Autoimmune?

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Anti-Rh Ab 
Dapsone
PTU
antimalarials
sulfa drugs

Antibody (IgG) binds to RBC’s membrane in warm temp

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36
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What is seen in Paroxysmal Cold Auto Autoimmune?

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Bleeds after cold exposure Donath-Landsteiner Ab

37
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What is seen in Sickle Cell Anemia?

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Crew-cut on x-ray

Avascular Necrosis of femur

38
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What are the Production Anemias?

A

Diamond-Blackfan

Aplastic Anemia

39
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What is seen in Diamond-Blackfan Anemia?

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They have low RBCs and double jointed thumbs

40
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What is seen / causes in Aplastic Anemia?

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Pancytopenia
Autoimmune
Benzene
AZT (Zidovudine an HIV antiviral drug) 
Chloramphenicol (Ricketsia bacterial infections) 
Radiation
41
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What is Basophilic Stippling?

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Lots of immature cells increased mRNA (seen in lead poisoning)

42
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What is a Bite Cell?

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Unstable Hb inclusions (seen in G6PD Deficiency)

43
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What are Burr Cell/ Echinocyte?

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Seen in

Pyruvate Kinase deficiency
Liver disease
Post splenectomy

44
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What is Cabot’s Ring body?

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Seen in Vitamin B12 Deficiency and lead poisoning

45
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What is a Dohle Body?

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PMN Leukocytosis (polymorphonuclear neutrophils, also called granulocytes) 
(caused by infections, steroids, tumor)
46
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What is a Drepanocyte?

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Seen in Sickle cell Anemia

47
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What is a Heinz body?

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Seen when Hb precipitates and sticks to cell membranes in G6PD deficiency

48
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What is a Howell-Jolly Body?

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The spleen or bone marrow should have removed nuclei fragments.
(Seen in Hemolytic Anemia, spleen trauma, and CA)

49
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What is a Pappenheimer body?

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Iron inside cell (sideroblastic anemia)

50
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What are Pencil Cell/ Cigar Cell?

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Seen in iron deficiency anemia

51
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What is Rouleaux formation?

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Seen in Multiple Myeloma (Stacked coin look)

52
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What is a Schistocyte?

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Broken RBC (seen in DIC and artificial heart vlaves and others)

53
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What is a Sideroblast?

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Macrophages pregnant with Iron (caused by genetics and or multiple transfusions)

54
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What is a Spherocyte?

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Old RBC

55
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What are Spur Cells / Acanthocytes?

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Lipid bilayer disease

56
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What is a Stomatocyte?

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Seen in liver disease

57
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What is a Target Cell/ Codocyte?

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These have less Hb (seen in Thalassemias or iron deficiency)

58
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What is a Tear Drop Cell/ Dacrocyte?

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RBC’s squeezed out of bone marrow. (Seen in Hemolytic Anemia and bone marrow CA)

59
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What do Platelet problems cause?

A

Bleeding from skin and mucosa

60
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What do Clotting problems cause?

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Bleeding into cavities

61
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What causes increased PTT and Bleeding Time?

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Von Willebrand disease and SLE

62
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What is Bernard-Soulier?

A

Baby with bleeding from skin and mucosa

Big platelets and LOW GP-1b

63
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What is Glanzmann’s?

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Baby with bleeding from skin and mucosa (LOW GP-2b3a)

64
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How does Factor 13 Deficiency present?

A

Umbilical stump bleeding

this is the first time a baby has to stabalize a clot

65
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What is a Factor V - Leiden?

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Protein C cannot break down Factor V

66
Q

How does Von Willebrand Disease (VWD) present?

A

Heavy menstrual bleeding

67
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What are the types of VWD?

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Type 1 (AD): Decreased VW FActor Production
Type 2 (AD): Decreased VW Activity
(+ Ristocetin Aggregation test)
Type 3 (AR): No VWF
68
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What is Hemophilia A?

A

Defective Factor VIII (<40% Activity)

Bleed into cavities (head, abdomen, etc)

69
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What is Hemophilia B?

A

Factor IX deficiency

Bleed into joints (knee, etc)

70
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What is Polycythemia Vera?

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  • Hematocrit (Hct) >60%
  • Decreased EPO
  • Budd-Chiari
  • Pruritis after bathing
71
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What is Essential Thrombocythemia?

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Very high platelets increased RBC’s and WBC’s

72
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What is Histiocytosis X?

A

Histiocyte proliferation
Kid with Eczema, skill lesions
Hand-Schuller-Christian disease

73
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What does the Coombs Test Tell you?

A

Antibody involved

74
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What does the Direct Coombs Test tell you?

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Antibody on surface (seen in hemolytic anemia)

75
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What does Indirect Coombs Test tell you?

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The Antibody is freely circulating in the serum

76
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What is Type and Cross?

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Blood that is matched by blood type and cross-reacted with the patient’s blood for rejection

“A type and screen (T&S) determines ABO blood group and Rh type and screens for clinically significant alloantibodies in case a patient needs blood. A type and cross determines the same information, but additionally performs a crossmatch between the patient’s sample and a unit of blood to prepare a product for immediate transfusion. A type and cross should only be ordered if there is a high likelihood of transfusion.”

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What is Type and screen?

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type and screen determines ABO and Rh status of the patient + screens for most commonly found unexpected antibodies.

ABO-RH testing: the “Type”: The patient’s blood cells are mixed with serum known to have antibodies against A and against B to determine blood type.

78
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What is Forward Typing?

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Uses Antibodies to detect Antigens

79
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What is Backward Typing?

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Used Antigens to detect Antibodies

80
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What does blood type A tell you?

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They have the A antigen and B antibodies

81
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What does blood type O tell you?

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They have no antigens (Universal donor)

82
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What does blood type AB tell you?

A

Have both Antigens (universal recipient)

83
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What does Rh+ tell you?

A

Has D Antigen

84
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What does Rh- tell you?

A

Does not have the D Antigen

85
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What is Hemolytic Disease of the Newborn?

A

Rh- mom’s blood mixes the Rh+ fetal blood in first pregnancy
No risk to this child
All pregnancies to follow will be a risk, leading to a fetal demise

86
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What is RhoGam?

A

Anti-D IgG

87
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When do you give RhoGam?

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1st Dose: Week 28 gestation
2nd Dose: 72 hours post-delivery
Any time a procedure would mix mom and fetal blood

88
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What is INR ratio determined by?

A

Measured PT/ Control PT
therapeutic level is between 2-3
Normal level is 1