labs meaning

Question 1

poylcytemia

Answer 1

could be due to hypoxia or tutors or heart problems of dehydration or kidney tutor

Question 2

Low HgB

Answer 2

Anemia, bleeding, chronic kidney disease, low iron, poor nutrition, cancer Treatment, Rheumatoid art

Question 3

Hi HGB

Answer 3

COPD, Lung scaring or HF all d/t chronic hypoxia

Question 4

Low wbc meaning

Answer 4

Cancer, Autoimmune
Rual illness
Infection
Severe amount of physical stress

Question 5

Hi WBC

Answer 5

Allegy, infection, drugs, smoking, damage, arthritis

Question 6

low HCT

Answer 6

Anemia, nutritional defiency, kidney disease, cancer, leukaemia

Question 7

Hi HCT meaning

Answer 7

dehydration, lung disease of CAD

Question 8

High monocytes

Answer 8

Chronic infection, IBS!!!!!! or monocyte anemia

Question 9

High Eosinophiles

Answer 9

ASTHMA & ALLEGIRES

Question 10

HYPONATREMIA

Answer 10

DIARRHEA, VOMITING, DIURETICS, KIDNEY DISEASE, too much h2o, accumulation because of malnutrition of HF

Question 11

procalcitonin

Answer 11

high means they may have sepsis.

Question 12

what does CRP mean

Answer 12

High means there is chronic inflammation or bacterial inflammation

Question 13

what is PTT

Answer 13

partial thromboplastin time - measure time it takes for a clot to form - can tell if clotting factors are working
why: Explained bleed, bruise. liver disease HEPARIN

Question 14

PT-INR

Answer 14

Detect bleed / clot disorder - INR to determine anticoagulation

Question 15

what is D - Dimer

Answer 15

rule out clotting (thrombotic) episodes
DVT, OE
D- Dimmer is one of the protein freganemtn when a blood clot gets dissolved in body