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ED Clinical Pathway for Evaluation/Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease With
Fever
URL: />Authors: A. Ellison, MD; J. Lavelle, MD; C. Jacobstein, MD; C. Norris, MD;
R. Cecil, RN, MSN; T. McKnight, CRNP; H. Hartung, MD; K. Smith Whitley,
MD
Posted: January 2010, last revised March 2020
ED Clinical Pathway for Evaluation/Treatment of Sickle Cell Disease and
Pain
URL: />Authors: J. Umana, MD; A. Ellison, MD; J. Fuchs, RN; M. Wengler, CRNP;
H. Huang, Pharm D; C. Norris, MD; K. Smith-Whitley, MD; C. Jacobstein, MD;
J. Lavelle, MD
Posted: July 2010, last revised March 2020
ED Clinical Pathway for Evaluation/Treatment of Children With
Hemophilia and Closed Head Injury (CHI)
URL: />Authors: R. Butler; L. Raffini, MD; C. Witmer, MD; C. Jacobstein, MD; J.
Lavelle, MD
Posted: August 2005, last revised October 2019

ANEMIA
Goals of Treatment
Severe anemia requires rapid evaluation and treatment to prevent hypoxia, congestive
heart failure, end-organ damage, and death. When the etiology of the anemia is not
immediately apparent, management focuses simultaneously on diagnostic and
therapeutic interventions. Many management strategies for the anemic child are similar
regardless of etiology, but special considerations are necessary in the setting of a
destructive red cell process.
CLINICAL PEARLS AND PITFALLS