What are platelets? What do they do? In this episode of Labstories, I'm going to use a really fun city emergency story to teach you all about platelets! These are audio tracks from the corresponding YouTube video, which you can find linked below. It has graphics, charts, and more text to help you understand all about platelets!

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0:00 Intro
0:13 Story About Platelet Plumbers
1:03 How Platelets Cause Problems
1:50 What are Platelets?
2:30 What do Platelets Do?
2:36 Platelets vs. RBCs vs. WBCs
3:37 Mean Platelet Volume (MPV) Explained
5:00 Causes of Low Platelets
6:22 Causes of HIGH Platelets
7:06 Video Recap


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