What is the fluid portion of the blood called?
What is the fluid portion of the blood called?
plasma
The liquid part, called plasma, is made of water, salts, and protein. Over half of your blood is plasma. The solid part of your blood contains red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.
What is the liquid portion of blood without an anticoagulant?
serum
If blood is drawn into a tube without anticoagulant: plain red or SST, then the blood will clot naturally and separate into liquid and cells. This liquid is called serum. It is the fluid portion of a blood clot.
What is the anticoagulant found in blood?
Anticoagulants such as heparin or warfarin (also called Coumadin) slow down your body’s process of making clots. Antiplatelet drugs, such as aspirin, prevent blood cells called platelets from clumping together to form a clot.
What liquid portion of blood has the clotting factors?
Plasma
Plasma is the liquid portion of blood. It carries the different types of blood cells to all the parts of the body. Plasma also carries proteins including clotting factors.
Which of the following is the first step in the blood collection procedure?
The first step to the collection is to positively identify the patient by two forms of identification; ask the patient to state and spell his/her name and give you his/her birth date. Check these against the requisition (paper or electronic).
Which component of blood carries oxygen to the body cells?
red blood cells
The main job of red blood cells, or erythrocytes, is to carry oxygen from the lungs to the body tissues and carbon dioxide as a waste product, away from the tissues and back to the lungs. Hemoglobin (Hgb) is an important protein in the red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of our body.
Which of these is responsible for blood clotting?
The main job of platelets, or thrombocytes, is blood clotting. Platelets are much smaller in size than the other blood cells. They group together to form clumps, or a plug, in the hole of a vessel to stop bleeding.