Certain bleeding sites are more serious than others for patients of hemophilia, as illustrated in the image shown on the right. Be sure to select each lighted area to view more information. The PDF chart that is linked below provides a summary of the seven major types of bleeding episodes. You can print the chart for future reference.
For this part of your training, we will go through how to assess bleeding episodes. To begin, let’s take what we’ve covered here to answer the following questions about a patient from the previous module.