Anemia Part 1 - Microcytic Anemia
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
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🗓️ 8 November 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
A 21 yo F presents c/o of increasing fatigue and occasional SOB. Her sx have been gradual in onset over the past few weeks. She denies: chest pain, cough, fever & leg edema. Vital signs are normal. No other complaints or Past Medical History.
You obtain some labs that show you what you believe to be the answer.
- Hgb - 7.8
3 months ago:
- Hgb - 12.5
Whats the next step? What's the cause? How do you manage this?
This week on the Medgeeks podcasts we discuss.. ANEMIA!
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| 0:00.0 | A 21-year-old female presents to your clinic complaining of increasing fatigue and occasional shortness of breath. |
| 0:07.0 | Her symptoms have been gradual and onset over the past month. |
| 0:11.0 | She denies chest pain, cough, fever, leg edema. She has normal vital signs. |
| 0:18.1 | No other complaints or past medical history. |
| 0:21.0 | You obtained some labs that show you what you believe to be the answer. |
| 0:25.0 | She has a hemoglobin of 7.8. |
| 0:28.0 | And prior to this, three months ago, her hemoglobin was 12.5. |
| 0:32.0 | So what's the next step with this patient? What's the cause? How do you manage this? |
| 0:38.0 | This week on the med geeks podcast we discuss anemia. Hey hey hey what's up. What's up everybody? Welcome back to the med geeks |
| 1:00.2 | podcast. My name is Eric Gordon and today as I mentioned we are talking about |
| 1:04.8 | anemia. Anemia affects approximately one-third of the world population. |
| 1:10.8 | It's a very common problem and there's a lot of different causes for it as well. |
| 1:15.4 | I've been getting a lot of recommendations from AskMedgeeks.com about doing an episode on the |
| 1:20.8 | approach to anemia. So I've decided to take on the beast and we are going to talk about it. I've decided to break it up into two parts. So today will be part one of our discussion of anemia. So let's get started. So let's define anemia. Anemia comes from the Greek |
| 1:35.9 | words an, which is without, plus hyma or hema, which means blood, so without blood. |
| 1:43.8 | It's also a condition I frequently have |
| 1:46.6 | after a long shift in the ED |
| 1:48.0 | because I come home and I say, |
| 1:49.6 | Anemia cold beer right now. |
| 1:51.6 | That was a really stupid joke. I should edit that out, but I probably won't. |
| 1:55.2 | The real definition of anemia is a reduction in circulating red blood cells, |
| 2:00.9 | which is something we detect by obtaining a |
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