Jared Rice: High Platelets, Low Clot Risk? – What Makes Neonatal Platelets Different in Sepsis
Jared Rice, Nurse Professional Development Specialist at Cleveland Clinic, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“A septic preterm infant’s platelet count climbs past 1,000,000.
In an adult, that number puts you on alert for arterial thrombosis. In this infant, nothing clots.
Interpreting that count through an adult framework leads you toward the wrong concern.
The number is real, the sepsis is real, but the risk it signals in a neonate isn’t the one you were trained to expect from an adult platelet count that high.
Same septic trigger.
Same alarming number.
Something about how this platelet answers when it’s triggered is not what you’d expect, and that gap is what keeps a count like that one from turning into a clot.
The video traces what’s actually different in a neonatal platelet once it’s activated, and where a count that high is actually coming from.
Watch the video to see why that count doesn’t carry the same risk in a newborn.”
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