Global Health and Health Policy 50 Lecture 1: Coagulation Modifier Drugs 241

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10. 10. 2018: general term for any process that stops bleeding, coagulation is hemostasis that occurs because of the physiologic clotting of blood, complex relationship between substances that promote clot formation and either inhibit coagulation or. Ashley hawthorne dissolve a formed clot: thrombus: technical term for a blood clot, embolus: thrombus that moves through blood vessels. Cascade : each activated factor serves as a catalyst that amplifies the next reaction, result is fibrin, a clot-forming substance fibrinolytic system is activated (initiates the breakdown of clots and balances the clotting process) Intrinsic pathway and extrinsic pathway: these pathways are activated by different types of injury, extrinsic: blood vessels damaged by the penetration from the outside (knife or bullet wound) Intrinsic: the components of the intrinsic pathway are present in the blood in their inactive forms, activated when in contact with exposed collagen on the inside of damaged blood vessels.

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