Evidence-based On-call

internal medicine

Sickle cell crisis

Prevalence
Clinical features
Investigations
Therapy
Prevention
Prognosis

Therapy

Try TENS if the pain is bad. ^d

Why?

Sickle cell patients with crises find TENS a helpful procedure, though the effect on pain relief after 4 hours is unclear. ^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