Danielle has lived her entire life with sickle cell disease. “My blood cells are like sickle shape instead of like normal ...

Less than a third of ED visits for acute sickle cell disease pain were guideline-adherent for the timely administration of ...

“To provide menstruating patients with sickle cell disease the best care, primary care physicians, gynecologists, and ...

Major is one of the first pediatric patients in Florida to receive gene therapy for sickle cell disease since the FDA ...

Guideline adherence for opioid pain medications was found to be suboptimal among patients with sickle cell disease pain in the ED.

Sometimes the chronic pain that Precious Gaza experiences is so severe that she has to be hospitalised. While she cries in agony and screams in pain, nurses tending to her sometimes question the ...

According to one patient undergoing treatment for sickle cell disease at University Hospitals Connor Whole Health, pain associated with the disease “feels like someone’s constantly stabbing you, but ...

Administration of opioid medications to people who present to the ED with acute sickle cell disease pain often does not happen as quickly as guidelines recommend, data presented at ASH Annual Meeting ...

Pain in sickle cell disease is frequently misunderstood, leading to mistrust between patients and providers. Many patients report managing their pain crises at home, because they fear being dismissed, ...

Only 1 in 3 patients in an ER for sickle cell crisis receive opioid painkillers within the first hour as treatment guidelines ...

The guidelines also differ in the follow-up assessment of patients while they are in the emergency room. The NHLBI also recommends reassessing patients every 15 to 30 minutes and readministering pain ...