Other cardiac info

Question 1

what is polycythemia?

Answer 1

increase RBCs

Question 2

why would the body go into polycythemia?

Answer 2

because it thinks that the body needs more oxygen due to hypoxia (bone marrow thinks it needs to make red blood cells)

Question 3

Polycythemia will cause:

____ blood.

____ for platelets

Answer 3

• thickening of blood

- no room for platelets (thrombocytopenia)

Question 4

thus, the effects of chronic hypoxia will result in:

Answer 4

1- polycythemia
2- clubbing (finger tips and toes)
3-poor growth (hypoxia= decreased growth)
4- squatting
5- hyper-cyanotic spells (blue or tet spells)

Question 5

___ % of brain growth occurs in first year of life.

Answer 5

50%