🩸Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC) | Must-Know NCLEX® Points

Here's what happens during disseminated intravascular coagulation, or DIC for short. So what's happening here is that the clotting cascade in the body is overstimulated and so many blood clots form, and this compromises the blood flow in the body, depletes clotting resources, and this leads to hemorrhage. So this is actually secondary to another serious, serious acute trauma or illness, something like sepsis. And DIC is a medical emergency. It must be caught quickly and reversed super quickly. It can be fatal. It's a medical emergency. Now, some nursing interventions that you'll do for this are identify and treat the cause. Like we said, trauma, sepsis, put that patient, the patient is on bleeding precautions, medication management, oxygen, IV fluids, blood transfusion, platelets, clotting factors and anticoagulants. But this is only in the early stages. You can find all these med surg flashcards inside the nursing SOS shop.