SCD also known as sickle cell disease affects the blood and cardiovascular system. There are six different types of SCD. The following discussion will include cause‚ symptoms‚ diagnosis‚ treatment and prevention. The proper education on this disease will give patients and the public a better knowledge of the common unfamiliarity with SCD. The cardiovascular system consists of the heart‚ arteries‚ capillaries‚ veins‚ and blood. The organs in the cardiovascular system are a vital part of the human
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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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Diseases that affect organisms are often seen in negative light. Often‚ when people hear the word disease they are likely to think of microscopic organisms that harms the host it inhabits. However‚ scientists like Dr. Sharon Moalem would suggest that the modern day human diseases contributed to the survival of our ancestors. He states that the diseases we still have protected us from other diseases that were much worse. The reason why the diseases are still in existence in modern times is due to
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Aplastic Anemia Definition Pancytopenia resulting from aplasia of the B.M. classified into primary and secondary types. Definition the bone marrow produces too few of all three types of blood cells: red cells‚ white cells‚ and platelets (pancytopenia) Causes A-Primary: 1- congenital (as Fanconi’s anemia). 2- Idiopathic acquired (67% of cases). Causes B- secondary: 1-chemicals (benzene‚ toluene‚ glue sniffing). 2-drugs (chemotherapeutics‚ antibiotics
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Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis On 11/16/12 one of my best friends passed away from a very rare disease known as Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis‚ or HLH. The exact cause of HLH is unknown. It is a disorder of the immune system‚ it leads to the activation of infection fighting cells called histiocytes and lymphocytes. Normally they are supposed to travel throughout the body and destroy foreign material and fight infections. Patients with this disease have too many of these activated histiocytes
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BLOOD DONATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS SPECIFICATION BY P.LAVANYA (10BCE0366) E1 SLOT 1 Contents 1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4 2. Purpose……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………4 3. Scope……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….4 4. References……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….5 5. Overall Description………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….6 6.
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Persuasive Speech “Donating Blood” Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to donate blood regularly if their blood is safe to be transferred to another human being. Central Idea: Donating blood helps save lives through a relatively simple and painless process that also provides numerous benefits to the donor. Introduction Attention Step: I. (Attention) One day while Jim was enjoying one of his favorite hobbies‚ flying small airplanes‚ the airplane crashed and Jim suffered broken bones and
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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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Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome is an X-linked recessive immunodeficiency disorder usually inherited by males from their mother. This syndrome involves both T- and B-lymphocytes characterized in one third of patients by the triad of recurrent bacterial sinopulmonary infections‚ eczema (atopiclike dermatitis)‚ and a bleeding diathesis caused by thrombocytopenia and platelet dysfunction. The characteristic triad of bleeding‚ eczema‚ and recurrent infections in Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome generally become evident
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Homework #4 Name _______________ Lab Day/Time____________ Cardiovascular Dynamics This experiment examines the factors that effect blood flow through a blood vessel. The rate of blood flow is influenced by the pressure gradient in the vessel‚ the radius of the vessel‚ the viscosity of the blood and the length of the vessel. You will be asked to systematically examine each of these factors to determine their effect on blood flow. Getting Started: Login to a CAL lab computer using ZULU
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