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Iron deficiency Anemia:Etiology/Diagnostics - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔inadequate amount of iron, children 12-36
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months at risk |\ |\
Iron deficiency Anemia: S/S - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-
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tachy
-can be underweight or overweight
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Iron deficiency Anemia: treatment - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔-Iron rich foods (green leafy), supplements, dietary
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supplements, organ meats, rice cereal at 6 months, |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
Iron deficiency Anemia: Teaching - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔- No cow's milk until the baby is 1 years old
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-NO iron supplements with milk, give on empty stomach
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acid makes it absorb beer*
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o Liquid supplement can stain teach, use straw or regular
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iron supplement capsule/pill
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o Black tarry green stools
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o Keep away from children, never keep more than a
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month supply at home
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,o Infants 30 mins before on empty, older child with
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something citric for the acid* |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
o Dietary counseling
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Sickle Cell Anemia: Important* - CORRECT ANSWERS
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✔✔Prevent Dehydration |\
Sickle Cell Anemia: Etiology/Diagnostics - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔-Hereditary, Autosomal recessive trait.
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-Cells are sickle shaped. -Repetitive decrease in 02 cell
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walls become rigid.
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-Cells are getting jammed, causing an obstruction of
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RBC's, resulting in PAIN.
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-The normal HGB is replaced with abnormal HGB.
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-Effects the spleen. |\ |\ |\
o Organ that's mostly effected is the spleen*
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o Newborn Screening in the US
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Sickle Cell Anemia: S/S - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔o
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Vascular inflammation |\ |\
o Pain-> severe abdominal pain or chest. Mid to severe
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from 1 min-days -> crisis
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o Stroke -> Severe unrelieved headache**
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o Painful Swelling: hands, feet, joint pain
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,o Headache. Doesn't go away with meds? Possible CVA.
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EMERGENCY* |\
o One CVA? R/F another** (stroke)
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o Visual disturbances
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o Obstructive jaundice
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o Fever 101.3 or higher
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o Severe hypoxia
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Sickle Cell Anemia: VASOCCLUSIVE Crisis - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔-: Acute chest syndrome |\ |\ |\ |\
-mimics pneumonia "painful episode"
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Sickle Cell Anemia: Splenic Sequestration - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔-Pooling of blood in the spleen
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-Causes infection, stress, dehydration, *USE IV FLUIDS***
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-trauma
Sickle Cell Anemia: treatment - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔o
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DON'T over oxygenate o Heat
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o Prophylactic antibiotics: R/F infection* Preventing
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Infection* ( Vaccines, Anbiocs (PCN))
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o If they've had a stroke, every 3-4 weeks for
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transfusions* to prevent CVA |\ |\ |\ |\
o Decrease 02 demands
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, o Oral/IV hydration, Oral at home to prevent
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hospitalization |\
o Splenectomy (severe)
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o Stem cell Transplant: considered curative (severe)
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o Rest
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o Control Pain: Morphine
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o Electrolyte replacement
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Sickle Cell Anemia: Teaching - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔o
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Prevent hydration |\ |\
o Rest
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o Improve oxygen but don't over oxygenate
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|\ o Educate importance of vaccines
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o Know s/s of a stroke
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|\ o Child is normal just gets sicker easier
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Hemophilia: term - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔MIssing |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
clotting factors |\
Hemophilia:Etiology/Diagnostics - CORRECT ANSWERS |\ |\ |\ |\
✔✔Deficiency of factor VIII, produced by the liver, |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\
bleeding disorder |\