Chapter 18 Blood Composition What are the three functions of blood? Transportation‚ Regulation‚ and Protection What makes up the formed elements of the blood? Red Blood Cells White Blood Cells- -Granular leukocytes‚ neutrophils‚ eosinophils‚ basophils. -Agranular leukocytes‚ T and B lymphocytes and natural killer cells‚ monocytes. What is the percentage of total blood volume occupied by RBCs? Hematocrit What is the normal range of hematocrit for adult females? Adult males? women:38-46% males:
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nlm.nih.gov. Umbilical Cord Blood: Information for Childbirth Educators‚ Winter 2011. Web. 15 Feb. 2013. The author‚ a licensed clinical nurse specialist and childbirth educator‚ was driven to do research and write this article because she only had the basic information for cord blood banking to offer to couples is her classes. She shares that the first recipient of a cord blood transplantation was a 6-year-old boy who was treated for Fanconi ’s anemia using cord blood collected from his younger
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Khaqhovia Lee Ms.Bolle IB English November 18‚ 2012 The Clutter’s death fades as time disperses the clouds of darkness‚ revealing winds of prosperity. Within the frigid pages of In Cold Blood by Truman Capote‚ death haunts the living as time sways through the air. A reunion between Dewey and Susan Kidwell‚ portrays the endless chain of life and death‚ as the waves of turmoil of the Clutter family’s death to the execution the murderers. Fields of wheat wave to the dead and the blue sky protecting
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Blood borne Pathogens Guidelines for Healthcare Workers-Protecting Yourself with Standard Precautions Protect Yourself from Blood borne Pathogens As a healthcare worker‚ you may be exposed to germs that come from blood and other body fluids. Such germs‚ called blood borne pathogens‚ can make you very sick. By following your facility’s guidelines and using standard precautions‚ you can protect yourself from blood borne pathogens. Read to learn more. What Are Standard Precautions? Standard
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BLOOD AND LYMPH SYSTEM THALASSEMIA Jeriser Edwards ASA College Medical Terminology Monday and Wednesday Professor Veloz Disease: thalassemia Thalassemia is an inherited disease blood disease in which the body makes abnormal forms of hemoglobin (wikipedia‚ 2014). Hemoglobin is the protein found in red blood cells that carries oxygen. The disorder results in destruction of the red blood cells‚ which then leads to anemia (wikipedia‚ 2014). Two main forms of thalassemia are beta thalassemia
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Red blood cell From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia [pic] Human red blood cells (6-8μm) Red blood cells (also referred to as erythrocytes) are the most common type of blood cell and the vertebrateorganism’s principal means of delivering oxygen (O2) to the body tissues via the blood flow through thecirculatory system. They take up oxygen in the lungs or gills and release it while squeezing through the body’scapillaries. These cells’ cytoplasm is rich in hemoglobin‚ an iron-containing biomolecule that
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Table 5: Characteristics of human and bovine red blood cells HUMAN MALE HUMAN FEMALE COW WBC COUNT(#of cells/mm^3 of blood) 7000 7250 7450 RBC COUNT(# of cells/mm^3 of blood) 540000 4600000 8000000 HEMATOCRIT (%) 47 42 37 [Hb](g/100ml of blood) 16 14 12 MCV (femtoliters) MCHC(%) 34 33 32 MCH(pinograms) Discussion: 1. RBC count‚ hemotocrit and hemoglobin concentration are higher in males than females. It is because males generally have larger muscle mass and perform more physical
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“The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas‚ a lonesome area that other Kansans call ‘out there.’ . . .The land is flat‚ the views are awesomely extensive; horses‚ herds of cattle‚ a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them.” pg. 3 The book begins and ends with descriptions of the landscape; the serenity of the plains is an unlikely setting for a tragedy‚ which makes it all the more disturbing
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Blood gases and acid base balance Normally we do venous/capillary blood gases. Arterial blood gases are only done in the very sick children‚ who have been intubated/ventilated and have arterial lines in situ (usually in the theatre prior to transfer to the PICU in Newcastle. Here is a stepwise approach to blood gas analysis. STEP 1: [pic] STEP 2: Look at pCO2 [pic] STEP 3: Look at Bicarbonate & Base excess (BE) [pic] Base excess (BE): Base excess is the
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Jazmin Castro Mrs. Clement AP Language and Composition‚ Period 7 10 April 2014 Entry 1‚ page 5 “But afterward the townspeople‚ theretofore sufficiently unfearful of each other to seldom trouble to lock their doors‚ found fantasy re-creating them over and over again—those somber explosions that stimulated fires of mistrust in the glare of which many old neighbors viewed each other strangely‚ and as strangers.” I found this quote to be a sad truth. It is
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