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Sickle cell crisis

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Clinical features
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Therapy

Painful crises and Acute chest syndrome   

Give morphine or diamorphine iv or im regularly a or via patient-controlled analgesia d

Why?

  • PCA is safe and well-tolerated in patients with sickle cell crises d

 

Expiry date: May 2004
Levels of Evidence used in grading these guides

Author    CM  Ball, RS Phillips
Reviewer   G   Serjeant
CAT Writer     CM  Ball, N  Shenker