Blood Analysis: Computer Simulation
Blood Analysis: Computer Simulation
Introduction
Blood is a combination of plasma (watery liquid) and red and white blood cells as well as platelets. It is a specialized bodily fluid that supplies essential substances and nutrients, such as sugar, oxygen, and hormones to our cells. Blood analysis can determine how functions of the body are working and if they are working properly. The purpose of this lab is to understand how various ailments, locations, and blood types can affect blood analysis.
Hypothesis
Hypothesis- Activity 1: In higher demographic elevation hematocrit levels would be higher. Also, in blood samples with aplastic anemia and iron deficiency hematocrit levels would show to be lower than the average: 47% for males and 42% for women.
Hypothesis- Activity 2: I anticipate that other than the healthy individual all remaining blood samples will have high sedimentation rate.
Hypothesis- Activity 3: I would suspect that Hemoglobin levels would be much lower for the Iron deficient female and that the Polycythemia Male and Olympic female would have higher levels.
Hypothesis- Activity 4: Blood types will be able to be detected through the presence of antigens
Materials and Methods
For this lab, we used these materials as listed below.
* Computer * PhysioEx 8.0 Software disk * Collin College Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab manual * Printer
To conduct this lab, the following steps were taken:
Activity One:
You will need to open the Hemtocrit determination exercise within the PhysioEX program. 6 blood samples are given simulating a healthy male living in Boston, a Healthy female living in Boston, Healthy male living in Denver, a Healthy female living in Denver, as well as a Male with aplastic anemia and a female with iron-deficiency anemia. You then take blood from the simulated blood samples fill the Heparinized capillary tubes, seal it with the capillary sealer and place it in the microhemocrit centrifuge
Introduction
Blood is a combination of plasma (watery liquid) and red and white blood cells as well as platelets. It is a specialized bodily fluid that supplies essential substances and nutrients, such as sugar, oxygen, and hormones to our cells. Blood analysis can determine how functions of the body are working and if they are working properly. The purpose of this lab is to understand how various ailments, locations, and blood types can affect blood analysis.
Hypothesis
Hypothesis- Activity 1: In higher demographic elevation hematocrit levels would be higher. Also, in blood samples with aplastic anemia and iron deficiency hematocrit levels would show to be lower than the average: 47% for males and 42% for women.
Hypothesis- Activity 2: I anticipate that other than the healthy individual all remaining blood samples will have high sedimentation rate.
Hypothesis- Activity 3: I would suspect that Hemoglobin levels would be much lower for the Iron deficient female and that the Polycythemia Male and Olympic female would have higher levels.
Hypothesis- Activity 4: Blood types will be able to be detected through the presence of antigens
Materials and Methods
For this lab, we used these materials as listed below.
* Computer * PhysioEx 8.0 Software disk * Collin College Human Anatomy and Physiology Lab manual * Printer
To conduct this lab, the following steps were taken:
Activity One:
You will need to open the Hemtocrit determination exercise within the PhysioEX program. 6 blood samples are given simulating a healthy male living in Boston, a Healthy female living in Boston, Healthy male living in Denver, a Healthy female living in Denver, as well as a Male with aplastic anemia and a female with iron-deficiency anemia. You then take blood from the simulated blood samples fill the Heparinized capillary tubes, seal it with the capillary sealer and place it in the microhemocrit centrifuge
Cited: Marieb, E. (2009). Human anatomy & physiology laboratory manual. (Custom ed.). New York: Pearson. Physio-ex version 8:laboratory experiments in physiology [DVD]. (2008).