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| What is the normal blood volume in a term infant? |
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| Why do hemoglobin and hematocrit values usually increase in the first several hours after birth? |
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| Because of movement of plasma from intravascular to extravascular space |
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| In the infant, what is the ratio of capillary value to venous value? |
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| What is a normal venous hemoglobin for an infant? |
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| In terms of hgb, retic count, and nRBC count, what is the difference between premature infants and term infants? |
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| In premature infants, hgb is lower, retic count and nRBC counts are higher than term infant |
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| At what age does hgb concentration fall to about 11 g/dL and erythropoiesis begins to increase? |
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| What is the normal lifespan of a red blood cell in an infant? |
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| Is it normal to have megaloblastic erythropoiesis in the newborn? |
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| At what age should there no longer be nRBC's present? |
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| Is it normal to see immature white cells such as promyelocytes and blast cells in the newborn's blood smear? |
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| How does the infant's platelet count compare to adult platelet count? |
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| Pretty much the same as adult values |
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| Which has a higher O2 affinity, hgb F or hgb A? |
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| At what age is the O2 dissociation curve about the same as an adult? |
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| At birth, which is more abundant, neutrophils or lymphocytes? |
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| at 7 days old, which is more abundant, neutrophils or lymphocytes? |
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| at 2 weeks old, which is more abundant, neutrophils or lymphocytes? |
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| between birth and 2 weeks old, does the wbc count increase or decrease? |
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