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For the first part of question refer to this table from Guyton and Hall(12ed pg 192)
For muscle part of calculation assume blood flow to skeletal muscles average - 3 to 4 ml/min/100g of muscle [Guyton and hall Pg 243]
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Till now probably there is no evidence of whether we should use aspirin alone in Covid 19 patients to prevent blood clot unless he is suffering from some cardiovascular
disorder . This may be probably due to no well conducted RCT taking aspirin into consideration. Although there are suggestion it can be useful. Earlier there were claims that use of NSAIDS ...
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Image source: cancer .gov.
Bone marrow is a semi-solid tissue found within the spongy or cancellous (denoting bone tissue with a meshlike structure containing many pores, typical of the interior of mature bones) portions of bones. As you can see in the image above the hematopoiesis occur at the ends of long bones where red bone marrow is present. In red bone ...
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It's really simple, your misunderstanding just comes from mixing macro- and microanatomy. Macroscopically, all of bone marrow is located inside the bone, in the medullar cavity.
Microscopically, bone marrow tissue consists of different cells, some of which are endothelial cells that comprise sinuses, and alongside them (or outside of them, if you will; in ...
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Kinda interesting question IMHO, let me break it down a little.
First, let's tackle the ABO system. Here you are transfusing O into O, so that would be perfectly fine.
Secondly, the is the Rhesus factor. Rh+ erythrocytes have a special antigen on their surface, and if the recipient has antibodies against that antigen, that would cause problems (for ...
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During dialysis only about 10 percent of the blood is outside your body at any given time, while the rest continues to circulate. If the blood flows at 600mL/min, then it doesn't take very long to clean 5 liters (say 8 min). So why aren't you done that quickly?
There are three reasons:
Each time cleaned blood is returned, it mixes with the waste-filled ...
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