Preparing for a Collaborative Community Assessment. This fact sheet by Community Development, Data Information and Analysis Laboratory, Iowa State University, offers a step by step guide to conducting a community assessment. Outlines an easy to follow process to determine needs. 2001.
Platelets are tiny blood cells that help your body form clots to stop bleeding. If one of your blood vessels gets damaged, it sends out signals that are picked up by platelets. The platelets then rush to the site of damage and form a plug, or clot, to repair the damage.n this condition, your bone marrow makes too many platelets. People with thrombocythemia may have platelet counts that exceed 1 million. Symptoms can include blood clots that form and block blood supply to the brain or the heart. The cause of thrombocythemia is unknown.
Platelets are the smallest of the three major types of blood cells. 1  are only about 20% of the diameter of red blood cells. 2  The normal platelet count is 150,000-350,000 per microliter of blood, but since platelets are so small, they make up just a tiny fraction of the blood volume.isorders of Platelet Number: Too Few Platelets. Disorders with low platelet counts are called thrombocytopenias, a term derived from an old name for platelets, âthrombocytesâ. This name describes the platelets as the cells (âcytesâ is a word for cell) that contribute to thrombosis, or blood clotting.