DIC person hospital needs transfusion blood sample not clotting
2007-03-26 14:53:02 · 2 answers · asked by Trini Trixie 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
The patients needs a transfusion due to DIC, but the sample for compartibility testing is not clotting to make serum. How do the sample clot?
2007-03-26 15:09:17 · update #1
The patients needs a transfusion due to DIC, but the sample for compartibility testing is not clotting to make serum. How do the sample clot?
2007-03-26 15:09:29 · update #2
DIC = disseminated intravascular coagulation. Something causes blood to clot throughout the body. The cause could be an infection, or a toxin. All the platelets get used up and blood can no longer clot. It's one of the consumption coagulopathies. Another one is TTP, or thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura.
2007-03-26 14:57:58 · answer #1 · answered by Intrepyd 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
by using a tube that has thrombin, or adding a small amount of thrombin to the specimen. another possibility (if it's in the blood bank's standard operating procedures) is to use anticoagulated blood in EDTA or NA-Citrate tubes. then you don't have to worry about whether the specimen clots.
2007-03-26 22:15:36 · answer #2 · answered by bad guppy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋