Emergency room care for hemophiliac patients. Understanding and overcoming difficulties.
Hemophiliac patients represent a unique challenge to emergency room physicians. They are particularly well educated and experienced in their disease and its treatment, whereas emergency room doctors may have little experience with management. This paradoxical situation often leads to frustration for both; it need not be this way. Using a new paradigm of a patient-physician relationship, the patient's knowledge, experience and intuition can enhance the physician's diagnostic abilities. Together both can transform a potentially adversarial relationship into one which is mutually empowering and healing.
D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D005164:Factor IX / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005169:Factor VIII / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000150:complications; D006467:Hemophilia A / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy*; D002836:Hemophilia B / Q000188:drug therapy; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D010146:Pain; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations
D005169:Factor VIII; D005164:Factor IX