Tanabe Featured in DCRI News Story
November 7, 2018
Paula Tanabe was recently featured in a news story entitled "New clinical trial to compare ED treatment protocols for sickle cell disease complications" published on the DCRI website.
When patients with sickle cell disease arrive at a hospital emergency department (ED), they are often in significant pain from an acute vaso-occlusive episode (VOE), a common complication of sickle cell disease. With no standard treatment approach in most EDs, patients are likely to receive doses of pain medication that are highly variable. This results in pain treatment that patient surveys frequently describe as inadequate.