MLHP Review Questions for Quiz 3

What is coagulation/hemostasis?

-What are the 4 systems/steps that involves the process of hemostasis? What is the end result? What is the primary and secondary steps? What is the goal?

-Which cell is the important one in hemostasis?

-What is the final product in the process of the blood clot formation?

-Write the sequence of clot formation

-What does fibrinolysis mean?

-What is thrombus?

-What is embolus?

-What is platelet adhesion?

-What is platelet aggregation?

-What is thrombocytopenia? What is thrombocytosis?

-How many coagulations factors you have? What is the name of coagulation factor

-What is the mineral that is required for the coagulation factors to work together?

-What are the three different pathways?

-What are the two major components of fibrinolysis?

-aPTT/PTT measures which pathway and monitors what therapy? What does it stand for?

-PT measures which pathway and monitors what therapy? What does it stand for?

-What does INR stand for?

-What are the laboratory methods for coagulation testing?

-Which tube and anticoagulant do we use? What is the ratio? How many inversions?

-The clot tested is measured and reported in ____ (units)

-A PT (Prothrombin Time) specimen should be collected and run (tested) within ___ hours? How long can we store it and what temperature?

-aPTT specimen should be collected and tested with ____ hours? How should be stores? aPTT samples for monitoring Heparin therapy should be run or separated with ___minutes of collections?

-Platelet poor plasma can be frozen at _____ for _____Weeks

-Platelet poor plasma can be frozen at _____________ if more than _______ weeks is needed

- ______ ________ _________ is the type of coagulation sample required for analysis. (look at the three words in the question above it).

-write the factors that interfere with the clot based test results. Know the problem and the solution.

-What is the name of the problem if the solution was to adjust the anticoagulant.

-Range for INR, PT, aPTT