Pain Management in Adults With Sickle Cell Disease in a Medical Center Emergency Department
Pain Management in Adults With Sickle Cell Disease in a Medical Center Emergency Department
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DOI:
10.1016/s0027-9684(15)30729-x
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发表时间:
2010-11-01
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
Solomon, Lawrence R.
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作者:
Solomon, Lawrence R.
d Guidelines for pain management in adult sickle cell patients with vaso occlusive crises suggest prompt frequent ad ministration of parenteral opioids Neither the ability to implement these guidelines in a busy urban emergency department nor plod dose requirements in uncomplicated vaso occlusive crisis have been previously documented Thus a retrospective review of vaso occlusive crisis treated in an urban medical center emergency department in 2005 was performed to define opioid requirements and barriers to guideline implementation Fifty seven visits by 19 patients were evaluable Opioid treatment was not initiated for more than 2 hours during 30% of visits the Interval between the first and second opioid doses exceeded 1 hour in 26% of visits and increased with subsequent doses and total treatment time was less than 1 hour during 21% of visits (median 22 hours), Opioid doses (as intravenous morphine equivalents) ranged from 4 to 267 mg (0 05 050 mg/kg) and exceeded 10 mg during 40 visits (70%) and in 10 patients (53%) Hospitalization occurred on 25 occasions with 48% of patients admitted after 3 or fewer pad doses and 50% of patients admitted after less than 3 hours of treatment Moreover return emergency department visits occurred within 3 days after 9 of 32 home discharges (28%) with treatment times uniformly less than 3 hours during the preceding visit It is concluded that (1) opioid dose requirements vary widely often exceeding guideline recommendations and (2) treatment time and timely opioid administration are often compromised resulting in delayed pain control and premature decisions on disposition with early return visits and possibly avoidable hospital admissions