The secrets of sickle cell

How can paediatricians offer patients with sickle cell disease the best possible care? How do we listen to children and young people, and their families, to help recognise and manage their painful crises?

Emma and the team are joined by Dr Subarna Chakravorty, a consultant haematologist, to discuss the NICE guidelines for sickle cell and thalassemia and the management of pain. The panel discusses how children of different ages experience pain differently and why it's important to consider co-morbidities.

Guest: Dr Subarna Chakravorty, Consultant Haematologist, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Imperial College London. Subarna has a special interest in non-malignant haematology and stem cell transplant for haemoglobinopathy and non-malignant diseases.

Hosts: Dr Emma Lim and Dr Christo Tsilifis 

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