Webinar: Sickle Cell Pain Management

Sickle Cell Pain Management

This Friday, February 7 from 10AM-1PM Pacific Time, the National Academies consensus study committee will host an online information-gathering webinar on Pain Management and living with sickle cell disease (SCD).

The webinar will focus on pain management interventions and strategies, with special attention to questions such as:

• When and how often are parenteral opioid pain medications used to manage SCD pain crises?
• What are indicators or contraindicators for their use?
• How have best practices regarding opioid pain medication changed over the past 10 years?
• What circumstances or factors might lead providers not to prescribe opioid pain medication, even when advised by current best practices?
• What other pain medications might be administered in the context of a severe pain crisis?
• What can alternative medications tell us about a patient’s symptom severity?
• What non-pharmacological interventions, including traditional and alternative therapies and home remedies, are available to manage pain associated with SCD?
• What treatments or interventions used for acute pain crises are equivalent to parenteral opioid medication in terms of medical severity of the underlying acute crisis?

Learn more on the event page.