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Sickle Cell Pain
People with sickle cell disease have red blood cells that are crescent-shaped. These blood cells are hard and sticky and can clog blood vessels, preventing blood flow. Clogged blood vessels can lead to a painful sickle cell crisis.

Wanting medication to relieve the severe pain does not make a patient a drug addict or mean that he or she is trying to "get high."
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Bibliography -- Sickle Cell Pain

American Pain Society. Guidelines for the Management of Acute and Chronic Pain in Sickle Cell Disease. American Pain Society: Glenview, IL, 1999.

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Benjamin LJ. Pain in sickle cell disease. Current Therapy of Pain 1984:90-104.

Beyer JE, Simmons LE, Woods GM, Woods PM. A chronology of pain and comfort in children with sickle cell disease. Arch Ped Adol Med 1999;153:913-920.

Brookoff, D, Polomano R. Treating sickle cell pain like cancer pain. Annals of Internal Medicine 1992;116:364-368.

Cole TB, Sprinkle RH, Smith SJ, Buchanan GR. Intravenous narcotic therapy for children with severe sickle cell pain crisis. AJDC 1986;140:1255-1259.

Cozzi L, Tryon WW, Sedlacek K. The effectiveness of biofeedback-assisted relaxation in modifying sickle cell crises. Biofeedback and Self-Regulation 1987;12:51-61.

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Piomelli S. Sickle cell disease in the 1990s: the need for active preventive intervention. Seminars in Hematology 1991;28:227-232.

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Shapiro BS, Cohen DE, Morris CJ. Patient-controlled analgesia for sickle-cell-related pain. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 1993;8:22-28.

Shapiro BS. Management of painful episodes in sickle cell disease. In: Schechter NL, Berde CB, Yaster M. Pain in infants, children, and adolescents. Cite information, pp. 385-410.

Silbergleit R, Jancis MO, McNamara RM. Management of sickle cell pain crisis in the emergency department at teaching hospitals. J Emergency Med 1999;17:625-630.

Steinberg MH. Drug therapy: management of sickle cell disease. N Engl J Med 1999;340:1021-1030.

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Yaster M, Tobin JR, Billet C, et al. Epidural analgesia in the management of severe vaso-occlusive sickle cell crisis. Pediatrics 1994;93:310-315.


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