Summary
These standards for the clinical care of adults with sickle cell disease were produced by the Sickle Cell Society in collaboration with a broad multi-disciplinary group of healthcare providers, patients and support groups.
Content
The standards cover the following areas of care and treatment:
- Organisation of care
- Primary care
- Health and wellbeing
- Acute and chronic pain
- Neurological complications
- Cardiorespiratory complications
- Renal and urological complications
- Priapism
- Fever and sepsis
- Orthopaedic complications
- Gastroenterological and hepatobiliary complications
- Ophthalmological complications
- Anaemia
- Leg ulcerations
- Outpatient management
- Reproductive health
- Surgery
- Hydroxycarbamide
- Blood transfusion
- Iron chelation
- Haematopoietic stem cell transplantation
- Emerging therapies
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