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    Sickle Cell Plan of Care

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    Sickle Cell Plan of Care Read the situation provided. Then‚ provide a brief description of the pathophysiology of sickle cell anemia and complete the nursing care plan by filling in the goals‚ outcomes‚ and nursing orders for the diagnoses provided in the table. SITUATION: Lavon is a 30 year old‚ single African American who was diagnosed with sickle cell anemia when he was 4 years old. He works for a computer company and has been working 12 hour days to meet the deadline for a special project

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    Sickle Cell is an inherited blood disorder that affects approximately 100‚000 people in the United States. Red blood cells contain hemoglobin which is a protein that carries oxygen through the blood. Normal red blood cells are flexible and round. This allows them to travel through the small blood vessels and deliver oxygen to all of the body. Sickle cell disease(SCD) causes these red blood cells to form into a crescent shape‚ like a sickle. The sickle-shaped red blood cells easily break apart‚ causing

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    Sickle Cell Anemia

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    Sickle cell anemia is a blood disorder that affects the 11th chromosome which is a hemoglobin gene. Hemoglobin is a protein located in red blood cells (RBCs) that carries oxygen through the body. This disorder is inherited from two parents with abnormal genes that are heterozygous (Rr). This means that both parents who have the trait may pass on the disorder to their offspring. The phenotype makeup is recessive. Those who inherit a normal copy of the chromosome 11 and a mutated chromosome will carry

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    Sickle-Cell Disease Greatly affecting the body’s oxygen levels due to mutated red blood cellssickle-cell disease‚ influences an individual’s childhood in multiple ways: cognitive‚ social‚ emotional‚ and physical development. Sickle-cell disease (SCD) refers to an inherited disorder where abnormal hemoglobin is present in one’s red blood cells. Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells responsible for carrying oxygen throughout the body. The deformed sickle hemoglobin in people with SCD can form

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    Sickle-cell disease‚ also known as sickle-cell anaemia‚ is a hereditary blood disorder‚ caused by an abnormality in the oxygen-carrying protein hemoglobin found in red blood cells. This leads to a propensity for the cells to assume an abnormal‚ rigid‚ sickle-like shape under certain circumstances. Sickle-cell disease is associated with a number of acute and chronic health problems‚ such as severe infections‚ attacks of severe pain‚ stroke‚ and an increased risk of death. Sickle-cell disease occurs

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    Sickle-Cell Anemia

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    Sickle-Cell Anemia is an inherited‚ chronic blood disease in which the body produces abnormally shaped red blood cells. When the blood cells become crescent/sickle shaped‚ they are unable to deliver adequate amounts of oxygen to other cells. Also‚ these unusual “sicklecells block blood pathways to the limbs and organs‚ limiting the amount of blood flowing throughout the body. It causes pain‚ organ damage‚ and anemia (low blood count). Unfortunately‚ however‚ when sufferers are born with this disease

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    Conclusion 1 Based on what you know about blood‚ why would having a sickle cell anemia crisis result in a reduced red blood cell count‚ an elevated white blood cell count‚ and a reduced hematocrit? There’s a reduced RBC count‚ elevated WBC count‚ and a reduced hematocrit because of the shape of the RBC. The sickle cell anemia causes the RBC to have a different shape; a crescent and rigid shape and there are not a lot of them. So because of that‚ there’s more WBC and a reduced hematocrit. Also‚ the

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    Sickle Cell Disease is an illness that affects people all across the globe. This paper will give a description of the sickness through the discussion of the causes‚ symptoms‚ and possible cures. Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a "group of inherited red blood cell disorders."(1) These disorders can have various afflictions‚ such as pain‚ damage and a low blood count--Sickle Cell Anemia. The overall incidence of SCD is eight out of 100‚000 people. However‚ it is much more widespread in some people.

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    Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders. People with Sickle Cell Disease have abnormal hemoglobin‚ called hemoglobin S or sickle hemoglobin‚ in their red blood cells. People with SCD inherit two abnormal hemoglobin genes‚ one from each of their parents. One of these abnormal hemoglobin genes causes the production of hemoglobin S in the body.1 When a person has two hemoglobin S genes‚ Hemoglobin SS‚ this disease is called Sickle Cell Anemia.1 This is the most common

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    Defects Sickle Cell Anemia (SCA) Sickle Cell Anemia (SCA) is one of a group of diseases collectively termed hemaglobinopathies‚ in which normal adult hemoglobin is partially or completely replaced by abnormal sickle hemoglobin(HgbS). Sickle Cell Anemia includes all of those hereditary disorder‚ the clinical‚ hematologic‚ and pathologic features of which are related to the presence of HbgS. Also know as SS and homozygous sickle cell disease. The most common form of SCD are: Sickle Cell Anemia

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