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The other name for White Blood Cell.
What is Leukocyte?
This blood type is considered the universal blood type because it has no antigens to react to transfused blood.
What is O-Neg?
A Blood component accepted as a treatment for patients with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP), bleeding in patients with acute DIC, or major hemorrhage requiring massive transfusion.
What is Fresh Frozen Plasma (FFP)
Two examples of dietary recommendations for patients with iron deficiency anemia.
What are spinach and beef?
Infection-control precautions nurses implement after patients undergo allogenic hematopoietic stem-cell transplants
What are neutropenic precautions?
A type of reaction where the patient experiences a 1 degree increase in temperature.
What is febrile?
These organs support immunity.
What are the thymus, tonsils, bone marrow, spleen, and lymph nodes?
Two activities of daily living patients with bleeding disorders (specifically low platelet counts) should adopt to decrease the risk of bleeding.
What are use a soft toothbrush and avoid constipation?
A painful condition that patients who have sickle cell experience when an increased hematocrit leads to increased blood viscosity that creates blockages in their blood vessels and is the most common cause of seeking urgent or emergent treatment.
What are Vaso-occlusive episodes (VOEs) ?
The best time to take ferrous sulfate for optimal absorption.
What is between meals?
Interventions to provide for a leukemia patient with a platelet count of 130,000/mm3
What are to limit IM injections or venipunctures?
Medications used to reduce fevers.
What are antipyretics?
A manifestation of an acute hemolytic reaction to a PRBC blood transfusion.
What is low back pain?
Classic hemolytic reaction flank/back pain, fever, red/brown urine (hemoglobinuria).
other symptoms include fever, agitation, chills, chest pain/tightness, tachycardia, hypotension, brown or reddish colored urine, flushing or reddened skin, headache, dyspnea, nausea and vomiting.
An option when severe platelet destruction continues despite all other forms of treatment.
What is a splenectomy?
Arterial clots are commonly caused by plaque formation (atherosclerosis). Venous thrombosis are mostly found here.
What are the deep veins in the legs?
A lab result most indicative of therapeutic effects of Epoetin alfa.
What is the hematocrit (Hct)?
Recommended health education and practice for nurses to provide to prevent complications for patients with polycythemia vera.
What are to void tight and restrictive clothing on the legs?
What is take the patient's vital signs?
The cells involved in a defect in lymphoid stem cells that can cause problems with T, B or NK cells
What are plasma cells. ?
Vitamins B-12, B-6 and folate are needed to break down this amino acid to create chemicals the body needs to prevent the increased risk of blood clots, heart disease, and stroke.
What is Homocysteine?
An abnormal coagulation condition involving multiple small clots that consume clotting factors and fibrinogen faster than the body can produce them increasing the risk for hemorrhage.
What is DIC?
The medication administered for heparin overdose.
What is Protamine?
Future risk in a successfully cured Hodgkin Lymphoma patient.
What is secondary cancer?
First action to take if a transfusion reaction is suspected.
What is stop the blood transfusion?
What is a megakaryocyte?
A manifestation of hemophilia-A the nurse should include when teaching a patient with a family history of this disorder.
What is disabling Joint Pain (especially knee or hip)?
Nursing management of thrombotic disorders are activities that lead to thrombosis. Name three main things that form virchow's triad, and three preventive measures to decrease risk of thrombosis.
What are hypercoagulable state, venous stasis, and vascular injury and exercise/ambulation, anti-embolism stockings, smoking cessation, low-dose ASA, clopidogrel, hydration, long term anticoagulation...?
A thrombin inhibitor and FDA approved anticoagulant for the treatment of Heparin-Induced-Thrombocytopenia (HIT).
What is Argatroban?
This deficiency is a Vitamin K-dependent enzyme synthesized in the liver, when activated, inhibits coagulation.
What is Protein C Deficiency?
Verifications that must be performed just prior to starting a unit of packed red blood cells.
What are patent IV suitable for blood transfusion (20 g or larger) confirm order, 2 patient identifiers (name/dob), blood type, unit number, compatibility, medical record # match and are correct. Check unit for gas bubbles or unusual color or cloudiness. Initiated within 30 minutes of blood bank release?