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Sickle Cell Disease: a training tool for acute admissions
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This education programme focusses on improving clinical knowledge of Sickle Cell Disorder (SCD) to enable healthcare colleagues to provide excellent care to a patient group with complex needs. The course starts with a simple introduction to SCD to ensure the learner starts with good basic understanding of SCD as a genetically inherited blood condition. The course progresses into teaching about the most frequent complication that patients with SCD encounter, acute pain, it also touches on other complications such as Acute Chest Syndrome. This course teaches how to treat these symptoms appropriately and effectively to ensure the best patient outcomes and experience
Knowledge checks are integrated throughout the course to test comprehension.
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| Contributed by: | Acute Sickle Care |
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| Licence: | © All rights reserved More information on licences |
| Last updated: | 09 December 2024 |
| First contributed: | 03 December 2024 |
| Audience access level: | General user |
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