Counseling psychology Compassion Fatigue and Crisis Workers' Attitude to Work WALDEN UNIVERSITY Tina Jaeckle LooloMaria AdnezaSickle cell disease (SCD) is a genetic disorder that affects millions of people worldwide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, over 100,000 Americans ...
Sickle cell disease is an inherited disorder of haemoglobin synthesis. Get better at looking after the children in front of you by reading this post.
(redirected fromSickle cell crisis) Thesaurus Medical Acronyms Encyclopedia sickle cell anemia n. A chronic, severe, and sometimes fatal anemia marked by crescent-shaped red blood cells and characterized by fever, leg ulcers, jaundice, and episodic pain in the joints. The disease occurs in people...
Patients with sickle cell disease in the United States experience profound disparities in care following transition from pediatric to adult medicine due to limited access to adult sickle cell subspecialists and discomfort around sickle cell disease management by primary care providers (PCPs). PCPs are ...
The most common symptom of sickle cell disease is the vaso-occlusive crisis, which studies have shown is generally poorly managed. This study aimed to assess whether nursing intervention in crisis management could facilitate movement of the pain care environment from hospital to the home. Studies ha...
Sickle cell syndromes, also collectively referred to as sickle cell disease (SCD), are generic terms for a group of chronic inherited disorders of hemoglobin structure in which the affected individual inherits two mutant globin genes (one from each parent), at least one of which is always the ...
Gaston4, Kwaku Ohene‑Frempong5, Lakshmanan Krishnamurti6, Wally R. Smith7, Julie A. Panepinto8, David J. Weatherall9, Fernando F. Costa10 and Elliott P. Vichinsky11 Abstract | Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a group of inherited disorders caused by mutations in HBB...
In our patients, the plan of treatment for acute hepatic sickle cell crisis included the early start of exchange blood transfusion (EBT). EBT is widely used in acute liver syndromes and chronic liver disease, and reaching such low levels of HbS (< 15%) was the key to success in the ...
While pain is one of the most debilitating symptoms of sickle cell disease, narcotics remain an effective although controversial widely practiced intervention. Vaso-occlusive crises are the most common cause for seeking pharmacological treatment. The influence of stigmatization and pseudo addiction in emerg...
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