Objective 22: Blood Clotting Process

To understand the blood clotting process I had to use my book.  The book seems like it was the only source that spelled out the process the best to me.  There are three steps to the blood clotting process aka hemostasis.  First I learned about vascular spasm, which is the immediate response to a blood vessel injury.  What it does is start constricting.  The constriction of the artery can significantly reduce blood loss for up to 30 minutes, allowing the platelets to do what they need to do and then the blood clot aka coagulation to occur.  This figure in the book really helped me out.  I jumped ahead to the other steps which are platelet plug formation and then coagulation.