Do anyone post easiest mnemonic for clotting factors??
First Person Told Cancer Leads Sickness, Another Chap Said Protein High Fat Factor I: Fibrinogen (First) Factor II: Prothrombin (Person) Factor III: Tissue thromboplastin or Tissue factor (Told) Factor IV: Calcium (Cancer) Factor V: Labile factor (Leads), Proaccelerin Factor VI: Accelerin (Remember: has been eliminated as it plays no role in blood coagulation) Factor VII: Stable factor (Sickness), Proconvertin Factor VIII: Anti-hemophilic factor A (Another) Factor IX: Christmas factor (Chap), Anti-hemophilic factor B Factor X: Stuart power factor (Said), Autoprothrombin III Factor XI: Plasma Thromboplastin Antecedent or PTA (Protein) Factor XII: Hageman factor (High), Glass or contact factor Factor XIII: Fibrin stabilizing factor or Fibrinase (Fat)
