[Expert Solution]: PATIENT HISTORY : The patient is a…

PATIENT HISTORY : The patient is a 20-year-old college student who presented to the emergency room at an outside hospital with general malaise, low-grade fever, and purplish discoloration on his face. The facial discoloration developed rapidly during the time from when he left his house to the time he arrived at the emergency room. Blood cultures were drawn and he was admitted to the intensive care unit. He was begun on imipenem-cilastatin and given fresh frozen plasma, cryoprecipitate, fluid resuscitation and dopamine. He was transferred to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center with fever, disseminated intravascular coagulation and hypotension. SOCIAL HISTORY: College student who routinely returned home on weekends to work. Question #1: What coagulation issues is this person having? Question #2: You learn that the patient is believed to be in DIC. What are they doing to initially to treat for the DIC?