A sickle crisis? : a report of the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (2008)

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Foreword by Professor T. Treasure, Chairman. This report reviews the circumstances around deaths in patients with haemoglobinopathies - sickle cell disease and beta thalassaemia - in the 21st century in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Offshore Islands. The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) was interested in ascertaining remediable factors in the prophylaxis and management of the clinical syndromes caused by sickle cell anaemia (HbSS), sickle haemoglobin C (HbSC), sickle haemoglobin D (HbSD), sickle B-thalassaemis (HbS B-Thal) and B-thalassaemia intermedia. The Executive summary is also available via the NCEPOD website at http://www.ncepod.org.uk/2008report1/Downloads/Sickle_summary.pdf.|Additionally, the full report is available for borrowing. It is shelved at WH 170 LUC.