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🩸CLOTTING CASCADE OVERVIEW Follow @nursewellversed for simplified nursing knowledge 🧠⁠ If you’re learning about disorders like sepsis and DIC in nursing school, understanding the basics of the clotting cascade can be really helpful! ⭐️Key things to know: ☞The clotting cascade is a series of reactions that occurs in response to bleeding to form a clot ☞There are TWO initial pathways: intrinsic (damage from inside) and extrinsic (damage from outside) ☞BOTH pathways lead to the activation of Fact

The clotting process is run by special proteins we call clotting factors. These factors team up to stop bleeding. There are three main paths the clotting process can follow. These are also known as clotting pathways (coagulation pathways). We call these pathways the “intrinsic,” “extrinsic,” and “common” pathways. Even though these aren’t real pathways inside the body, they help us understand how the body controls bleeding. These pathways show us how factors inside the blood turn on (activate) e