PATHOPHYSIOLOGY FOR THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS CHAPTER 6: FLUID‚ ELECTROLYTE‚ AND ACID-BASE IMBALANCES Fluid Imbalance Review of Fluid Imbalance -Water carries nutrients into cells and removes wastes‚ transports enzymes in digestive secretions‚ and moves blood cells around the body. Fluid Compartments -Approximatley 60% of an adult’s body weight consists of water -Infant’s body weight is about 70% -Fluid is distributed between the intracellular compartment (ICF)‚ or fluid inside the
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Fatigued: A Case on Blood 1. Oxygenation Status Immune Status - Red Blood Cells - White Blood Cells - Hemoglobin - Hematocrit Hemostasis - Platelets 2. Some Harold’s results of his CBC are abnormal and because of these results Harold can suffer from physiological effects. For example‚ his abnormal WBC counts. 3. Doctors determined that Harold is anemic‚ meaning he is suffering from anemia. Anemia is a condition in which your blood has a lower than normal number
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Deficiency AnemiaWhat is it and what are its causes?Anemia is an insufficient amount of red blood cells in the bloodstream and iron deficiency anemia is where there is a lack of iron in the blood. You need iron in your blood to make hemoglobin‚ which contributes in distributing oxygen to tissues from the lungs. One of the most common causes of iron deficiency anemia is an inadequate intake of iron in your diet. Another possible cause of iron deficiency anemia is bleeding‚ be this because of an injury or
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Sickle Cell anemia is a group of inherited red blood cell disorders‚ or a collection of recessive genetic disorders characterized by a hemoglobin variant called Hb S. Normal red blood cells are round like doughnuts‚ and they move through small blood tubes in the body to deliver oxygen. Sickle red blood cells become hard‚ sticky and shaped like sickles used to cut wheat. When these hard and pointed red cells go through the small blood tube‚ they clog the flow and break apart. This can cause pain‚
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HSC 4555 Spring 2015 Case Study Example A.S. was recently diagnosed with Hodgkin disease and scheduled for a staging procedure. His previous axillary lymph node biopsy result was positive for Reed-Sternberg cells. The surgeon charted the results of the staging procedure as “stage I.” Discussion Questions 1. What is the purpose of the staging procedure for A.S.? Staging system establishes a correlation between anatomic extent of disease and prognosis. Staging is used to determine the most appropriate
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Anemia is a condition in which there is lower than normal number of red blood cells or hemoglobin within a person‚ consequently decreasing the amount of oxygen being carried to the rest of the body. Causes of such a condition are usually insufficient amounts of iron‚ blood loss‚ lack of red blood cell production‚ or high rates of red blood cell destruction. (MNT‚ http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/158800.php) One form of this condition is the disease Sickle Cell Anemia‚ an inherited blood disorder
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Hello Shyam‚ Thank you for your informative post about iron-deficiency anemia. Anemia is not a disease but an indication of an underlying illness‚ in which there is a decreased in the number of the red blood cells (RBCs)‚ the amount of hemoglobin (Hgb)‚ and/or the volume of RBCs (Sabol et al.‚ 2010). As we age‚ Hgb levels decrease‚ increasing the incidence of anemia (Sabol et al.‚ 2010). Iron-deficiency anemia (IDA) is the insufficiency in iron dietary intake and/or in iron absorption from different
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Personal Ethics Grand Canyon University: NRS- 437V Personal Ethics In our day to day life‚ each and every person is responsible to make personal decisions‚ which can have great influence on their workplace‚ family‚ colleagues‚ their country and the entire world. Personal ethics means that an individual recognized within respect to other people and some situations which they face in their day to day life. Personal
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Case Study on Placement of Older Adults Healthcare Issues In Mr.Trosacks case study‚ there are several areas in which the case manager needs to address when planning for Mr. Trosacks discharge. To begin‚ the primary focus should be on proper care for a post op patient. This would include but not limited to; pain management‚ his ability to perform ADL’s and his accessibility and safety in his apartment. Education on his recent surgery and limitations he will now face and the
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Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is a genetic disorder that is hereditary. It affects the blood‚ and is caused when the hemoglobin in blood cells are deprived in oxygen from the proteins. These cause normal round blood cells‚ to have are rigid sickle shape. People affected by SCA have a higher risk of death‚ stroke‚ severe attacks‚ and severe rushes of pain. James Herrick discovered an anemia‚ and found bizarre sickle-shaped cells in 1910. A treatment for the disease was discovered in the 1920s by E. Vernon
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