Unit Six: Blood Cells, Immunity, and Blood Coagulation

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Unit Six Blood Cells, Immunity, and Blood
Coagulation

• Chapter 36 Hemostasis and Blood Coagulation

Guyton and Hall, Textbook of Medical Physiology,
12th edition
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Events in Hemostasis

• Vascular Constriction
• Formation of a Platelet Plug
• Formation of a Blood Clot
• Eventual Growth of Fibrous Tissue

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Events in Hemostasis

• Vascular Constriction
• Local myogenic spasm (lasts for min to hrs)
• Local factors from traumatized tissue and
  platelets
• Nervous reflexes
• Formation of the Platelet Plug