Sky news ran a report recently on blood donation needed for sickle cell treatments and talked to the Henry family from Wolverhampton. What do you know about sickle cell and how it should be treated?
Check these resources for an overview, key points,
diagnosis, treatment options, follow-up and more.
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Oxford Medicine
Online – chapter Sickle cell disease
and the lung in Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine
BMJ Best Practice
– Sickle Cell Anaemia
Clinical Key
(available to UHNM only) – Sickle
Cell Disease Clinical Overview
Clinical Knowledge
Summaries – Sickle
cell disease
Royal Marsden Manual
Online – Complications:
delayed transfusion reactions in Chapter 12: Respiratory care, CPR and
blood transfusion
Patient Information
- Sickle cell disease: what is it? [BMJ Best Practice]
- Sickle cell disease: what treatments work? [BMJ Best Practice]
- Sickle Cell Anemia, Adult (Easy to read) [Clinical Key]
- Managing Your Sickle Cell Anemia [Clinical Key]
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