Rasmussen College Sickle Cell Anemia Discussion

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Roslyn is complaining of severe pain. She is 6 years old and has been placed in public school for the first time. Now she is complaining of her legs hurting. She is so excited about being in school finally, but her parents report that she is not participating in play time, seems weaker, and is pale. She is diagnosed with sickle cell anemia, parents undergo genetic testing as well as all her siblings and it is found that she is the only child with the disease.

Explain to the parents this disease process and potential nursing interventions for this child.

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Sickle Cell Anemia
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Sickle Cell Anemia
Sickle cell anemia is a congenital genetic medical condition associated with hemoglobin's
morphology and role in the human blood. It is often passed from parents to offspring. The
disease usually leads to an aberration in oxygen-carrying hemoglobin situated in erythrocytes. In
doing so, the red blood cell becomes rigid and assumes a morphological shape of sickle-like
shape under specific circumstances. The disease is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder. It
has affected millions of individuals every year, and in 2015, the disease claimed almost 115,000
deaths in the whole world (Sundd et al., 2019). In this article, the paper focuses on the
pathophysiology of sickle cell anemia and its intervention.
Sickle cell anemia happens when an individual receives two atypical copies of the gene
β-globin gene (HBB). This gene is acquired from each parent. The gene is located in
chromosome number eleven. Naturally, the red blood cell is elastic. If this erythrocyte cell loses
elasticity, it becomes a principal point for this medical condition's pathophysiology. Normal red
blood cells appear biconcave in nature and are elastic to change their morphological shape to
squeeze themselves through thin capillaries. In this medical condition (sickle cell anemia), a
decreased oxygen tension level leads to red blood sickling (Sundd et al., 2019). When the
frequency of sickling increases, the overall effect is seen as this continuous sickling occurs, the
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