Aplastic Anemia: Causes, Types, and Pathophysiology | Pediatric Nursing | NCLEX Prep

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► THIS VIDEO will take you on a comprehensive journey into the world of aplastic anemia, targeting nursing students eager to expand their medical knowledge. 🩺
In this informative guide, you will explore the suppression of stem cells in the bone marrow, the vital center for blood cell production, and understand how aplastic anemia disrupts the creation of platelets, red blood cells, and white blood cells, ultimately leading to bone marrow failure. 🔍
📚👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️Learn to recognize the development of pancytopenia, a decrease in all cell types, and grasp the concept of normocytic normochromic anemia, where cells are the right size but insufficient in number. Discover how the bone marrow becomes aplastic or hypoplastic, with only a few cells remaining. 🩸🧬
Delve into the causes, from primary idiopathic origins to Fanconi anemia, and explore secondary causes such as medications, viral infections, pregnancy-related factors, toxins, and chemical exposures. Understand the potential triggers for aplastic anemia, resulting in disorders of pluripotent stem cells and decreased production of blood cells. 🩸
Uncover the mysteries of idiopathic aplastic anemia, believed to involve an immune-mediated attack on hematopoietic stem cells, where T-cells target these vital cells, leading to their demise, and lymphocytes suppress blood cell production and division in the marrow. 🏥
► THE PROF 👩‍⚕️
Dr. Paula Ruedebusch is a Family Nurse Practitioner, Researcher, and Teacher in Colorado, USA. She obtained her Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) at the University of Colorado in 2012, and Master's Degree from the University of Northern Colorado. Previously, she was Assistant Professor at Seattle Pacific University from 2017 to 2020. Due to her achievements, she earned the Seattle Pacific University Graduate Teaching Award in 2018 (SPU Graduate School), and was nominated for the UW Distinguished Teaching Award in 2016 (University of Washington). 💉🩺 Within Lecturio, Dr. Ruedebusch teaches courses on Pediatric Nursing. 📋
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► CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction: Understanding Bone Marrow and Blood Cells
00:18 Effects of Aplastic Anemia on Blood Cell Production
01:03 Fundamentals of Aplastic Anemia
01:17 Primary Causes of Aplastic Anemia
01:44 Secondary Causes of Aplastic Anemia
02:55 Possible triggers of Aplastic Anemia
03:07 Idiopathic Aplastic Anemia

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