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Bleeding time
Bleeding time is a medical test done on someone to assess their platelet function a blood pressure cuff is inflated around your upper arm. While the cuff is on your arm, the health care provider makes two small cuts on the lower arm. They are just deep enough to cause a tiny amount of bleeding. The health care provider records the time it takes for the cuts to stop bleeding.
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Did bleeding time decrease with the age?
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Does it hurt to get a bleeding time done?
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What is the definition or description of: bleeding time?
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Reasons of prolong bleeding time?
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What is the average bleeding time after you lose your virginity?
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Does the bleeding time depend upon whether the subject is fat or thin?
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Blood coagulation status require bleeding time?
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Why bleeding time is shorter than clotting time?
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Why bleeding time is smaller than clotting time ?
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Waht is the effect of bleeding time during fever?
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A 32-year old asked:
What bleeding time in patient with hemophilia is normal?
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If patient has less blood , what is effect in bleeding time?
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If the patient has less blood , what is the effect on the value of bleeding time ?
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A 44-year old asked:
What do these tests do: clotting time, bleeding time, prothrombin time?
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A 43-year old asked:
Does your menstrual bleeding time depend on blood pressure ?
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A 19-year old female asked:
When the patient is having the fever is there any change in the bleeding time if so give one reason?
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A 39-year old asked:
Hi there, Do fibroids affect normal bleeding time after childbirth? How long is it meant to take? Also does the pill affect anything in that regard?
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A 18-year old male asked:
Is it possible to have polycythemia vera with normal pt, ptt, & INR plus normal bleeding time? High rbc, hgb, & hct.
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A 18-year old female asked:
Having irregular periods .bleeding time to time for two weeks but not fully and colour of blood is different.is that sign of cancer?
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A 20-year old female asked:
Is it a sign of endometriosis when there's pelvic pain at non-bleeding time, in bladder and bowel, and generally abdominal area? How to confirm?
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A 43-year old female asked:
B12 inj(500mcg) for a week, does it increase clotting time,bleeding time?does it affect prothrombin time & INR? what supplements needed on B12 therapy
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A 36-year old asked:
What to do if I have bleeding short time in vajainal after sex?
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A 20-year old female asked:
I heard that BCPs can cause clotts or heavier bleeding from time to time. How often could this happen? Is once in 6 months normal?
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A 18-year old female asked:
Why am I bleeding every time I use Summer's Eve wash? Used it before & didn't bleed, now I am.
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I m bleeding every time i cleaning my teeth?
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A 35-year old female asked:
My son is 11 years old and his nose start bleeding any time?
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What's the problem if I get nasal bleeding in time of colds and flus?
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Hello I have been bleeding every time I masterbate it started about 3 weeks ago and I know I'm not scratching it because I don't finger myself anymore?
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How do you deal with scabs in your nose that keep bleeding every time you blow your nose?
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I struggle with nose bleeding from time to time i have sinus from a young age also my nose bleeding?
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