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Sickle cell disease...?Sickle Cell Disease: The Various Nursing Intervention Approaches to Decrease Pain among Patients in Kendall Regional Hospital In-Patient Section -Abstract Pain is one of the most important characteristic of sickle cell disease. While prevalent to certain race origins, the treatment of, control and reduction of pain among SCD patients has become an integral approach towards delivery of equitable health care services. The...
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Care for patients with Sickle Cell Disease...emergency services are a valuable resource, misconceptions among health care providers in treating sickle cell pain create barriers in this service. Thus, it is the nurse practitioner's responsibility to educate Ms. R of her rights as a patient and advocate regarding equal access and treatment.
Part III Research and Evidence-Based Practice
While theory provides a theoretical framework to understand SCD patients better, research studies use evidence-based practice to guide interventions. Health care providers, such as the nurse practitioner in Ms. R’s case, should have a clear...
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Sickle cell disease.... This condition is always genetic and is passed from one generation to another. However it is funny to note that one can contain the sickle cell gene but not have the disease. However in few cases, the disease does manifest itself (Cheatman, 1990). When blood doe not move around the vessels due to the presence of the crescent shaped red blood cells, it causes occlusion. This is a condition in which the blood vessels are clogged and as a result, the blood is not able to move to various parts of the vessel. This is always very painful and most patients are known to scream because of the...
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Sickle Cell Disease...on daily basis and bacterial infections to be prevented through immunizations. Antibiotic cover may be given prophylactically where required. Cancer drug, hydroxyurea has many benefits for the patient of sickle cell disease including reduction in pain and reducing the requirement of blood transfusions, and increasing the haemoglobin levels in the blood. Analgesics, anti-inflammatory drugs and morphine agents prove helpful. Red blood cell transfusion is indicated for chronic anaemia and splenic sequestration. Surgical removal of the spleen is also recommended in a few patients who present with excessive splenic...
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Children With Sickle Cell Disease...the generalization to the population. The random approach to sampling is not randomized across the state, which decreases the findings’ external validity. In addition, by combining different types of illnesses, it is hard to determine which is more stressful or if they share similar stressors. Other factors are not considered too, such as religion/faith and access to other support groups.
References
Glenn, S., Cunningham, C., Poole, H., Reeves. D. and Weindling. M. (2008). Maternal Parenting Stress and Its Correlates in Families with a Young Child with Cerebral Palsy. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, London
Xandra et.al., (2008). Quality Of Life of Female Caregivers of Children with Sickle...
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Sickle cell disease...depend on the family history and family's ethnic background (people from West Africa, Middle east and central India). Abnormal hemoglobin (i.e., sickle hemoglobin) can be detected by hemoglobin electrophoresis, a gel in which various types of hemoglobin move at different speed (Robinson et al., 1957). Genetic testing is rarely required for diagnosis.
Treatment options include zinc supplements which help in stabilizing the RBC membrane. Pain is treated with analgesics, sometimes requiring opioid administration. The first drug approved for treating sickle cell disease is hydroxyurea, was shown to reduce the number and severity of the...
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Sickle cell anemia...& Prober, 1985). Acute chest syndrome can also appear in childhood. This is a condition that appears a great deal like pneumonia as it presents fever, chest pain, difficulty breathing and pulmonary infiltrate in chest x-rays (Jadavji & Prober, 1985). Another of the more troublesome complications of sickle cell anemia is called vaso-occlusive crisis. This condition is caused by the sickle-shaped red blood cells as they build up and obstruct small capillaries thus reducing blood supply to various organs, also called ischemia. This can cause a great deal of pain for the patient and can frequently...
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Correcting Sickle Cell Disease using Stem Cells...will only possibly manifest if both parents are carrier of hemoglobin A. However, at present, the only available long term treatment for the disease is bone marrow transplant, which is prone to rejection and subsequent immune system reaction. The goals of other treatments, blood transfusion and pain medicines, are only for short-term relief of symptoms (Zieve and Chen, 2011).
Recently, however, researchers from Johns Hopkins have found another plausible long term treatment for sickle cell anemia. By inserting the correct hemoglobin A gene to pluripotent bone marrow cells and removing the defective hemoglobin S, the patient can be able...
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Prenancy woman with sickle cell disease...in designing the best responses to mothers who are victims of sickle-cell anemia (Glassberg, 2011).
How the program will be accomplished
The Nursing-family partnership provides local communities with the best home-based approaches specially developed to help a mother from low-income families. The program will be implemented through a comprehensive research initiative to identify mothers with this problem. Medical personnel and Nurses will be deployed in the localities. Each county will have an office where registration will be done. This will be done through professional ethics that require non-disclosure. Visitations will commence after victims have...
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Sickle cell disease...(tormenting, delayed erection). It additionally causes harm to the spleen, kidneys and liver. The harm to the spleen makes patients - particularly adolescent youngsters - effectively overpowered by bacterial diseases. An infant conceived with sickle cell infection inherits a gene for the issue from both folks. At the point when both folks/parents have the hereditary imperfection, theres a 25 percent risk that every youngster will be conceived with sickle cell infection (Monroe, 2008).
Most individuals with SCD have a solitary abscond on both duplicates of chromosome 11 that makes them process imperfect hemoglobin atoms, which tie...
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