How the Test is Performed. Blood is most often drawn from a vein the inside of the elbow or the back of the hand. The site is cleaned with germ-killing medicine (antiseptic). The health care provider wraps an elastic band around the upper arm to apply pressure to the area and make the vein swell with blood.
Disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC) is characterized by systemic activation of blood coagulation, which results in generation and deposition of fibrin, leading to microvascular thrombi in various organs and contributing to multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS).Consumption and subsequent exhaustion of coagulation proteins and platelets ...
biosynthetic pathway the sequence of enzymatic steps in the synthesis of a specific end-product in a living organism. classical complement pathway see complement. coagulation p's see common p. of coagulation, extrinsic p. of coagulation, and intrinsic p. of coagulation. common pathway of coagulation the steps in the mechanism of coagulation (see clotting) from the activation of factor x through the conversion of fibrinogen to fibrin. See also intrinsic pathway of coagulation and extrinsic pathway of coagulation.