Ms. X is a 30-year-old African American female who presented to the ED with a complaint of body aches. She reports generalized body aches and joint pain. The pain is constant, throbbing in nature and is a 10 out of 10 in severity. The pain has been ongoin Order Me
How does this acid base imbalance cause the potassium imbalance noted in this patient’s labs? How does the body compensate for the acid base disorder which this patient is experiencing? How does the anion gap help you to differentiate between the causes of this acid base disorder? Describe the genetic alteration which results in sickle cell anemia. Draw a Punnett Square which show her father as having a heterozygous genotype for sickle cell and her mother has having a homozygous genotype for sickle cell anemia. What was this patient’s chance of having sickle cell trait? Based on the parent’s genotypes, which one has sickle cell trait and which one has sickle cell anemia? For what actual or potential complications related to the diagnosis in question 1 does she need to be monitored? You may simply list your answer(s) below using a bullet point format. This does not have to be in a complete sentence.
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