ABO Blood Typing Lab Purpose The purpose of this lab is to determine the blood types of four blood samples using Anti-A and Anti-B serums. Hypothesis If the anti-B serum is added to the simulated blood‚ the individuals with blood that is type A or type O will have no effect but it will agglutinate the individuals’ blood that is type B or AB. If the anti-A serum is added to the simulated blood‚ those that have blood type O and B will be unaffected but those with type AB or A will agglutinate.
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RUNNING HEAD: PAIN MANAGEMENT IN A PATIENT WITH MASSIVE BLOOD LOSS Pain Management in a Patient with Massive Blood Loss Without the Use of Analgesia and Sedation due to Severe Hypovolemia Mollie Meador NSG 441 May 7‚ 2010 Introduction A twenty three year old female was admitted to the ICU at South Central Medical Center following uterine rupture and massive blood loss. The patient was ten weeks pregnant and experienced a miscarriage as evidenced by spontaneous vaginal bleeding
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Sickle Cell Anemia Sickle Cell Anemia is a blood disorder that shortens the life span of red blood cells‚ and eventually the organisms they are located in. Sickle Cell Anemia is an inherited blood disorder that changes that structure of red blood cells. In a healthy organism‚ red blood cells are disk shaped and move easily through the blood vessels. In an organism that has sickle cell anemia the red blood cells’ structures are corrupted; instead of the disk-like shape‚ the red blood cells have a
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Physiology ------------------------------------------------- Determine Blood Group Using Eldon Card ------------------------------------------------- The Experiment Zlata Jasevits Nursing Studies ‘A’ 2nd February 2009 Contents Introduction 3 Blood Structure 3 Blood Group Systems 4 ABO system: 4 Rhesus System: 5 Blood Transfusion 6 ABO Alleles and Genetic Inheritance Patterns 6 The
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Sickle cell anemia is an inherited blood disorder that cause the abnormal formation of the hemoglobin protein in red blood cells (Nih). Hemoglobin is an essential protein that resides within the red blood cells supplying oxygen to the entire body. Hemoglobin S causes a mutation in shape of hemoglobin protein causing a group of blood disorders including sickle cell anemia and thalassemia. Sickle cell anemia is a result of one abnormal hemoglobin S gene given to a child by each parent‚ children that
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Alexandria Agee Ms. Songer AP Biology February 16 2015 Sickle Cell Anemia: Case Study Summary Sickle Cell Anemia is a painful diseases that is caused by a mutation in the protein called hemoglobin which helps carry oxygen in red blood cells. Because of the mutation‚ the hemoglobin is shaped oddly which results in pain because it is hard for the blood to travel throughout the body and anemia because of the lack of oxygen in the blood. A person can only have this disease if both parents are carriers
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Evolution of Disease Sickle Cell Anemia Sickle Cell Anemia is a disease that which the red blood cells form an abnormal sickle or crescents shape. Red blood cells are very important to the human body because they carry oxygen throughout the body. The main causes of Sickle cell is when the cells in the body mutate into abnormal cell called haemoglobin S. Haemoglobin S causes the red blood cells to become sickle shaped‚ rigid. This causes to make it more difficult for the cells to flow the vein to deliver
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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 conditions that affect the red blood cells. People affected with sickle cell disease produce abnormally shaped red blood cells that causes health problems. Sickle cell disease is caused by a defective gene passed on from the parent to the child. Sickle cell disease is condition that is considered serious and lifelong. People of African descent are mainly affected with sickle cell disease in addition to ‚ Caribbean‚ Middle Eastern‚ Eastern Mediterranean
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SC disease‚ an autoimmune recessive condition‚ is an inherited abnormality of red blood cells. Affected children inherit two copies of an abnormal hemoglobin gene‚ one from each parent. For couples where both individuals carry one copy of the abnormal gene‚ described as having SC trait or being a carrier for SC disease‚ there is a 1 in 4 chance of future children being affected by the disease (?) From a biomedical perspective‚ a high potential for benefit from sharing research-generated SC disease
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