Impact of a dedicated infusion clinic for acute management of adults with sickle cell pain crisis
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Effectiveness of a dedicated day hospital for management of acute sickle cell pain.
Severe acute pain is common in sickle cell disease (SCD). Increasingly overburdened emergency departments are not the most appropriate setting in which to manage pain that requires close monitoring and careful opioid dose titration.1 We report on the benefit of treating acute pain in SCD in a day hospital (DH).
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Hematology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0361-8609
DOI: 10.1002/ajh.23961