DIC .Patient who does not have a clotting factor

Silverdragon102, BSN · Sep 22, 2015

Is this a school homework, work or personal related question?

allnurses Guide · Sep 24, 2015

HI guys please help me with this condition as i have sleepless nights trying to understand what happen to a person to not have a clotting factor.

My guess is that this is homework and while I won't give you the answer and have you miss out on all the fun of learning something knew I will give you some tips for finding out. The BSN program I attend has a great on-line medical library , does yours? Also if you are in nursing school you must have taken Anatomy and Physiology at some point in the past - crack open those old books and look for answers. Focus on what organs are involved in the production of clotting factors such as platelets and read what happens when a person goes into DIC. There is a site called Google scholar that has peer reviewed information that is free to access. Do you have a pathophysiology book? Look it up in the index and read the chapter, take notes and say in over and over until you get it. Someone telling you the answer is not going to help you.

Good Luck

Hppy

icuRNmaggie, BSN, RN · Sep 24, 2015

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In D.I.C. the intravascular space is full of cottage cheese like lumps of fibrin. These clots can affect every vital organ.

The clotting factors are used up and the patient has oozing from everywhere.

The treatment is FFP, cryopreciptate and packed cells along with heparin which prevents more clots from forming, as well as treating the injury or illness that triggered the syndrome.

This is just my very simplified explanation. The pathophysiology is very complex and you will need to study that further.