Dyspnoea in advanced disease
Subtitle: a guide to clinical management
By: edited by Sara Booth and Deborah Dudgeon.
Contributors: Booth, Sara, Dr.; Dudgeon, Deborah.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780198530039
Subjects: Dyspnea; Dyspnea -- Palliative treatment; Dyspnea -- complications; Dyspnea -- therapy; Palliative Care
Description: Covering current knowledge on the treatment of dyspnoea in people with different underlying diseases, this text provides comprehensive information on the latest scientific advances. The authors combine scientific understanding with practical clinical guidance on how to help, manage and treat patients with breathlessness.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The genesis of breathlessness - what do we understand? / Douglas Beach and Richard M. Schwartzstein; title: Multidimensional assessment of dyspnoea / Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman and Deborah Dudgeon; title: Breathlessness in heart failure / David P. Dutka and Miriam Johnson; title: Dyspnoea in chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder / Michelle M. Peters and Denis O'Donnell; title: Breathlessness in advanced cancer / Deborah Dudgeon; title: Breathlessness in neurological disease / Fliss Murtagh, Rachel Burman, and Polly Edmonds; title: Breathlessness in children / Stephen Liben; title: Respiratory muscle function in breathlessness / Michael Polkey; title: Pulmonary rehabilitation / Nha Voduc, Katherine Webb, and Denis ODonnell; title: Surgical interventions (including management of malignant pleural effusions) / Andrew J. Drain and Francis C. Wells; title: Nonpharmacological approaches / Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman; title: Oxygen in the palliation of breathlessness / Anna Spathis, Rosemary Wade, and Sara Booth; title: Pharmacological approaches to breathlessness / David Currow; title: A palliative approach to the breathless patient / Sara Booth and Deborah Dudgeon.