Nursing Student Class Projects (Formerly MSN)
Academic Term
7-2019
Document Type
Project
Course Number
NURS 5330
Course Name
Advanced Pathophysiology
Professor’s Name
Dr. John D. Chovan
Keywords
Sickle Cell Anemia, Red Blood Cells, Complication, Mutation, Inherit, Crisis
Subject Categories
Medicine and Health Sciences | Nursing
Abstract
Sickle cell anemia (SCA) is an inherited autosomal recessive disorder of red blood cell caused by an abnormality of hemoglobin called sickle hemoglobin (HbS) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 2017). African countries carry the highest incident of individuals with the SCA(CDC, 2017). In the United State, approximately 1 in 12 African-Americans carry the trait for SCA, and 1 of every 350 African-American infants born have the disorder (CDC, 2017). Individuals with sickle cell disease exhibit significant morbidity and mortality. Clinical manifestations of SCA are chronic hemolysis and acute vaso-occlusive crisis, which causes severe pain, infections, and chronic organ damage (CDC, 2017). Currently, newborn screening, early medical intervention, parents education, penicillin, and vaccination prophylaxis have successfully reduced morbidity and mortality rate. This poster gives an extensive review of pathophysiological processes of SCA, with specific details to its signs, symptoms and complications, underlying pathophysiology, and the significance of the pathophysiology. The poster also presents implication for nursing care.
Recommended Citation
Bassaw, Esther, "Sickle Cell Anemia" (2019). Nursing Student Class Projects (Formerly MSN). 390.
https://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/stu_msn/390