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Letter

Painful sickle cell episodes

NICE guidance ignored incentive spirometry

BMJ 2012; 345 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.e5370 (Published 21 August 2012)
Cite this as: BMJ 2012;345:e5370

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  1. Amit Patel, specialist registrar in haematology and intensive care medicine1
  1. 1Imperial College London; Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 0NN, UK
  1. amit.patel{at}imperial.ac.uk

It is disappointing that the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidance on managing an acute painful sickle cell episode in hospital did not advocate incentive spirometry as an …

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