How do you manage hyperalgesia in patients with sickle cell disease?
Answer from: at Community Practice
In addition to the obvious, such as PCA narcotics, Lyrica/Neurontin, and Toradol, I have success with IV Tylenol, Zyprexa, po L-Arginine (Morris et al., PMID 23645695) as well as Dexmedetomidine (Precedex), steroids (NEJM: Griffin et al., PMID 8107739) and acupuncture [Johnson et al., Alternative an...
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at UC Irvine Limited data suggests NMDA agonists also may help....
at Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Care must be taken when using steroids for VOC bec...
at FibroFighters Foundation Of course, we always taper steroids. It has many o...
at UC Irvine Hyperalgesia can be due to sickle cell neuropathy ...
Limited data suggests NMDA agonists also may help....
Care must be taken when using steroids for VOC bec...
Of course, we always taper steroids. It has many o...
Hyperalgesia can be due to sickle cell neuropathy ...