Surely it's just clot or no clot right? Join your intrepid guides Nick, Cale and Bashar as we help you master the med school coagulation cascade and its relevance (or lack of) to laboratory testing of haemostasis.
Wait what’s that? Everything you’ve been taught so far is an irrelevant lie? Bring yourself up to speed with the cellular model of coagulation and learn what really happens to make that clot appear
Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction to Bloody Minded Podcast
02:57 - Episode Introduction
03:40 - What's the point?
04:35 - The coagulation cascade
07:00 - Common pathway
13:25 - Factor 13
14:10 - Extrinsic pathway
18:39 - Intrinsic pathway
23:58 - Why the classical model is broken
26:08 - Cellular model of coagulation
30:22 - Summary
31/5/25 - Just a note that we remastered the audio so this episode sounds much more in line with our current ones - the content hasn't changed however
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