Dyspnoea in advanced disease
Subtitle: a guide to clinical management
By: edited by Sara Booth, Deborah Dudgeon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781423743262
Subjects: Palliative Care; HEALTH & FITNESS; Diseases; MEDICAL; Pulmonary & Thoracic Medicine; Respiratory; Therapy; Palliative treatment; Complications; Dyspnea
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.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: The genesis of breathlessness : what do we understand? / Douglas Beach and Richard M. Schwartzstein; title: Multidimensional assessment of dyspnea / Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman and Deborah Dudgeon; title: Breathlessness in heart failure / David P. Dutka and Miriam J. Johnson; title: Dyspnea in chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder / Michelle M. Peters and Denis E. 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 E. O'Donnell; title: Surgical interventions to improve dyspnoea / Andrew J. Drain and Francis C. Wells; title: Non-pharmacological approaches / Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman; title: Oxygen in the palliation of breathlessness / Anna Spathis, Rosemary Wade and Sara Booth; title: Pharmacological approaches to breathlessness / David C. Currow; title: A palliative approach to the breathless patient / Sara Booth and Deborah Dudgeon.