{"id":58,"date":"2017-06-20T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T14:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcns.scot.nhs.uk\/spah\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:40:30","slug":"protocolsguidance-adult","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/spah\/professional-zone\/protocolsguidance-adult\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Protocols\/Guidance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Guidance and protocols to support adult clinicians with the care of a patient with an haemoglobinopathy.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additional guidance is being developed, please check back regularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guidance due for review is being considered by the SPAH Guidance subgroups. Information contained within this guidance has been approved to remain on the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-2\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-2\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Adult guideline \/ protocol<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spah.scot.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/06\/NSD610-017.03-SPAH-Acute-Chest-Syndrome-in-Sickle-Cell-Disease.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Acute Chest Syndrome in Sickle Cell disease<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spah.scot.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/12\/NSD610-017.19-Management-of-Hyperhaemolysis-in-patients-with-Sickle-Cell-Disease-1.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Management of Hyperhaemolysis in patients with Sickle Cell disease<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spah.scot.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/06\/NSD610-017.17-SPAH-Thalassaemia-Outpatient-Management-for-adults-1.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thalassaemia Outpatient Management<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spah.scot.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/06\/NSD610-017.14-Stroke-other-CNS-complications.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stroke and other CNS complications<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spah.scot.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/11\/NSD610-017.13-SPAH-Sickle-Cell-Outpatient-Management-for-Adults.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sickle Cell Outpatient Management <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spah.scot.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/NSD610-017.11-SPAH-\u2013-Management-of-Priapism-in-adults-with-Sickle-Cell-Disease.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Priapism in adults with Sickle Cell disease<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spah.scot.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/06\/NSD610-017.09-SPAH-Perioperative-Management-of-Adult-Patients-With-Sickle-Cell-Disease.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Perioperative management in Sickle Cell disease<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/spah\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/05\/NSD610-017.23-SPAH-Physiotherapy-guideline-acute-management-SCD.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Physiotherapy guideline for the acute management of paediatric &amp; adult patients with Sickle Cell disease<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spah.scot.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/06\/NSD610-017.21-SPAH-Adult-Guideline-for-the-use-of-Iron-Chelation.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iron Chelation<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/spah\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/03\/NSD610-017.12-SPAH-\u2013-Red-Cell-Exchange-Transfusion-in-Sickle-Cell-disease.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Red Cell Exchange transfusion in adults with Sickle Cell disease<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/spah\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/11\/SPAH-Adult-Hydroxy-Guideline.pdf\">Hydroxycarbamide in adults with Sickle Cell disease<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-13\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/spah\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/10\/SPAH-Adult-Acute-Pain-Crisis-Guideline.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Management of Acute Painful Crisis in adults with Sickle Cell disease<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-14\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spah.scot.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/07\/NSD610-017.56-SPAH-\u2013-Renal-disease-in-patients-with-Sickle-Cell-Disease.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Renal disease in patients with sickle cell disease <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-15\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spah.scot.nhs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/07\/NSD610-017.57-SPAH-Acute-anaemia-in-sickle-cell-disease.pdf\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Acute anaemia in sickle cell disease<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-2 from cache -->\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"nhsuk-card__description\">Guidance to support adult clinicians with the care of a patient with an haemoglobinopathy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/spah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/spah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/spah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/spah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/spah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":114,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/spah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3535,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/spah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/3535"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/spah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nn.nhs.scot\/spah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}