blood clots and disorders

Blood clots & blood disorders

what is a blood clot?

are they good or bad

A blood clot occurs with a build-up of platelets normally to try and stop a bleeding situation

Clots can be good when stopping a bleeding injury but they also can occur randomly & abnormally which is when they pose health threats

abnormal blood clots

What is an abnormal blood clot?

When a blood clot forms abnormally it is called a thrombus. If the blot clot becomes disloged and travels, it's then called an embolus. When blood clots begin to travel they pose serious health problems and potentially even fatalities.

Multiple Choice

what is the difference between a thrombus and an embolus?

• embolus is stationary thrombus travels

• thrombus is stationary embolus travels

• thrombus is a blood clot ONLY found in the leg

• embolus is not real

​A coronary thrombosis is when a clot occurs in a blood vessel that supplies the heart with blood

CORONARY THROMBOSIS

a blood clot that normally starts deep in the legs travels to the lungs blocking the pulmonary arteries

Pulmonary embolism

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​When a section of the myocardium (heart muscle) is damaged or dies due to blood supply being blocked.

Classic medical term for a heart attack.

​​MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

​Occurs when a clot forms in one of the arteries that supply blood to the heart muscle that can result in causing a heart attack.

occlusion

Multiple Choice

What type of muscle do we find in the heart?

• smooth

• skeletal

• cardiac

• voluntary

Multiple Choice

true or false: blood clots can cause a heart attack

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

which of the following found in blood is responsible for blood clots?

• RBC

• Platelets

• WBC

• plasma

​Causes RBC to shrink and change shapes.

Sickle cell

A type of cancer resulting in the body making too many WBC.

leukemia

​Bleeding disorder caused by the body not producing enough clotting proteins in the blood. Missing factor causing platelets to stick together

von willebrand

Excessive bleeding to the blood not being able to clot properly. Missing a clotting factor.

​​hemophilia

Multiple Choice

What can be a result of the body overproducing white blood cells?

• hemophilia

• sickle cell

• von willebrand

• leukemia