Blood

Blood Companion Question

This material should be about 1.5 lectures

If you are running behind (ie you are starting after 10/14) You may want to watch starting from the part 3 - blood types video first and to the end, then go back to the first video. Blood types are the major conceptual part and tends to be more challenging.

Learning Objectives

  • Know the functions of blood
  • Know the composition of blood and their respective functions
    • plasma with factor proteins
    • Formed elements (RBCs, WBCs, platelets)
  • Know the composition & structure of RBCs
    • Carbonic anhydrase
    • bioconcave
    • concave
    • Hb
  • Know the composition of Hb  (Protein(globin), Heme, Iron)
  • Know how to calculate formed element / plasma proportions by hematocrit  / by hemacytometer
  • Know the path of hematopoiesis & erythropoiesis
  • know the regulation of erythropoiesis
  • Know how Hb is broken down
  • Know the Anemias
  • know the steps of hemostasis
  • Know how undesirable blot clots are normally prevented
  • Know what thromboembolytic disorders are
  • Know what the bleeding disorders are
  • know what blood types mean / are
  • know what antibodies are and what antibodies are present given a blood type
  • know how to blood type
  • Be able to give compatible blood types
  • know what hemolytic disease of the newborn is, the conditions for it, and the treatment for it

 

Terms

  • Hypoxia
  • hemorrhagic
  • hemolytic
  • aplastic
  • pernicious
  • sickle cell
  • Vit B12
  • PDGF
  • VEGF
  • thrombin
  • heparin
  • Aspririn
  • thrombus
  • embolus
  • pulmonary & cerebral emboli
  • petechiae

 

 

Blood pt 1: Composition

 

Blood pt 2: Hemostasis

 

Blood pt 3: Blood types (FYI - I start of saying blood fusion, I mean TRANSfusion)

 

Blood pt 4: Composition

 

Blood pt 5: Hemolytic Disease of the newborn