Treatment
This form of therapy allows for proper movement of blood in the state of a crisis.
What is a fluid bolus?
The abnormal shape of a blood cell.
What is Sickle cell?
This is the first symptom that appears in a young child with sickle cell anemia. This is an inflammation of phalanges.
What is dactylitis?
This is required while obtaining scans on young patients.
What is sedation?
This involves having HbA and HbS present in genetic makeup. This has less symptoms with no crisis present.
Your client is hypoxic due to inability to properly carry oxygen. You give them this.
What is oxygen?
This causes lack of perfusion and oxygenation.
What is clumping of sickle cells?
This is increased during blood work of a sickle cell patient.
What is reticulocyte count?
Post tumor resection, this is your primary treatment for these children.
What is pain management?
Involves infection, stress, over-exertion, altitude changes, cold weather, cold drinks.
What are Sickle Cell triggers?
This is given to sickle cell patients up to the age of 5, daily as a preventative measure.
What is penicillin?
This gene is carried by both parents, one has the trait and one has the disease. This gene causes sickle cell anemia expression.
What is HbS?
This 24-hour urine looks for this while attempting to diagnose neuroblastoma in a child.
What is increased homovanillic acid and vanillylmandelic acid?
This form of transfusion involves taking out the sickle cells and replacing with whole blood cells.
What is a partial exchange transfusion?
This causes a sickle cell crisis.
What is vaso-occlusion?
At this stage of neuroblastoma, the tumor is resected surgically and no need for chemotherapy or radiation is needed.
What is Stage 1?
These are immature nerve cells found in an embryo or fetus.
What are neuroblasts?
Location of this depends on where the discomfort will be present in children with neuroblastoma.
What is a tumor?
You need to have a urinalysis q shift for chemotherapy patients. This is what you need to place in the diaper for urine samples.
What are cottonballs?
This medication pulls excess iron out of the blood and is excreted into the stool. This is given to sickle cell patients.
What is Deferasirox?
This anti-cancer drug is given to sickle cell patients to help reduce the frequencies of a crisis. Women need to be on birth control while taking this medication because it is a teratogenic.
What is Hydroxyurea?
This is where neuroblasts build up within the body.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
This scan involves starting an IV, injecting this substance. This substance will attach to any neuroblastoma cells anywhere in the body. This scan takes one day for the results.
What is a MIBG scan?
A sickle cell has a lifespan of this length.
What is 10 days?
This stage of neuroblastoma, also known as special neuroblastoma. Usually in kids less than one year old and is only present on one side of the body. No treatment for this stage.
What is Stage 4S?