NUR 2462C Chapter Test 3: NUR 2462C Chapter : The Child with Hematologic or Immunologic Dysfunction
10 Feb 2020
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Preparing the child and family for tests: explain the significance, encourage parents to be with the child during the procedure, allowing the child to play with the equipment, decrease oxygen needs, prevent complications. Reinforce the importance of administering iron supplementation to exclusively breastfed infants by 4 months of age because breast milk is a low iron source. Enuresis increased fluids combined with impaired kidney function results: promote supportive therapies during crises, recognize other complications, support the family. Three manifestations of scd that appear in the first 2 years of life dactylitis, severe anemia, leukocytosis. Death caused by heart disease, postsplenectomy sepsis, multiple-organ failure secondary to hemochromatosis. Immunosuppressive therapy (ist) remove the presumed immunologic functions that prolong aplasia; replacement of the bone marrow through transplantation: antilymphocyte globulin (alg) or antithymocyte globulin (atg, nursing care management. The child with hematologic or immunologic dysfunction: suspicion when a child shows signs such as headache, slurred speech, loss of consciousness.
