ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
What is produced from megakaryocytes? - CORRECT ANSWER - platelets
Life span of platelets - CORRECT ANSWER - 9-12 days
Distribution of platelets - CORRECT ANSWER - 30% spleen 70% peripheral blood
What factors are vitamin k dependent? - CORRECT ANSWER - 1927 (10, 9, 2, 7, Protein
C, and protein S)
Which factors are consumed in clotting? - CORRECT ANSWER - I II V VIII XIII
What factors in the intrinsic pathway? - CORRECT ANSWER - XII XI IX VIII
What factors are in the extrinsic pathway? - CORRECT ANSWER - VII
What factors are in the common pathway? - CORRECT ANSWER - X V II I
What test monitors the intrinsic pathway? - CORRECT ANSWER - APTT
What test monitors the extrinsic pathway? - CORRECT ANSWER - PT
What are the three commonly used "clotbusters"? - CORRECT ANSWER - streptokinase,
urokinase, TPA