Test 3 All in Flashcards
Hematopoesis
Blood cell production, occurs in red bone marrow of irregular bones
Hematopoetic stem cell
As the cell matures it differentiates and changes production of several different types of cells depending on the demand of the cells.
Erythropoesis
RBC Production. Stimulated by hypoxia needs protein - high protein diet needed for healing, stimulated by the kidney.
Anemia
Low oxygen in the blood
Reticulocyte
Immature RBC, measures rate at which new RBC’s enter the blood stream. Mature in 48 hours of release into blood stream. No nucleus and slightly larger than mature RBC
Hemolysis
Destruction of RBCs
Normal life span of RBCs
120 days
Leukocytes
WBCs Neutrophils, most common acute inflammatory response, monocytes have a large mononuclear cell
Lymphocytes
bcells- fever, night sweats. t cells - decide what to be.
Thrombocytes
Normal count is 150000 - 400000. Aid in blood clotting. activated when exposed to interstitial collagen from injured blood vessel, form clumps, stickiness is called adhesiveness, clumps formation is called aggultination
Coagulation cascade
Heparin acts on intrinsic factor. Coumadin acts on extrinsic factor
Spleen
Recycling center of the body. Filters out old RBCs, reuses iron from hemoglobin and returns to bone marrow. Sickle cell alters splenic function.
Red Bone Marrow and stem cells
Decrease with age, never completely deplete. medications may interfere with clotting time. chemo attacks all rapidly dividing cells (including hair)
Anemia may be related to
Decreased intake of iron, cobalamin, folic acid, and green leafy vegetables
Anemia questions for patients
Age of menarche, clotting, cramping, and amount of bleeding.
Skin in an anemia patient will look like?
skin may be pale (decreased HGB), flushing (increased HGB), jaundice (excessive hemolysis) cyanosis (low HGB, High deoxyhemoglobin) Pruritis (hodgkins), leg ulcers (sickle cell), Petechia (low platelet or clotting factor), eccymosis, hematoma.
The eyes in an anemia patient will have?
Jaundiced sclera due to accumaltion of bile pigment.
What is responsible for Coagulation of the blood?
Platelets
why does a patient who has undergone Gastric bypass surgery develop anemia?
because they cant absorb Vitamin B12 (Cobalamin)
Neutopenia
low WBC’s >4,000
The basis of cellular and humoral immune response………..
Lymphocytes (B+T cells)
Thrombocytopenia
low platelets and low thrombocytes
If you can feel a patients spleen?
STOP PALPATING SICKO
A chemo pt is at risk for?
bleeding, infection, & anemia