The purpose of this research study is to compare two different ways to give opioid pain
medicine to treat sickle cell disease pain that is bad enough to go to the emergency
department for treatment. One way uses your weight to decide how much pain medicine to give
you while in the emergency department. This is called weight based treatment. The other way
uses how much pain medicine you take at home and how much medicine you needed during past
emergency department visits to decide how much medicine to give you. This is called patient
specific treatment.
| Beth Martinez | |
| 919-608-8094 | |
| beth.martinez@duke.edu |
6 United States sites
> 18 Years
Phase 3
Interventional
All
Other
Drug
Unknown
– All adult (18 years or older);
– SCD patients with the following genotypes: Hgb SS, SC, and SB+ and SB- thalassemia
– determined to not benefit from opioids and therefore won’t receive opioids in any
future ED visit.