Dyspnoea in Advanced Disease
A guide to clinical management
Seiten
2005
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-853003-9 (ISBN)
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-853003-9 (ISBN)
Dyspnoea is a common symptom in people with advanced cancer, cardiac, respiratory, and some neurological diseases. This book deals with the palliation of breathlessness associated with advanced disease. It includes chapters on the best ways to help patients and families live as fully as possible with this distressing symptom.
Dyspnoea (breathlessness) is an uncomfortable awareness of breathing that occurs in approximately 30-75% of terminal cancer patients. It is one of the most distressing symptoms for both patients and family members and can seriously impact on quality of life. Typically, dyspnoea is associated with congestive heart failure, end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or lung cancer. This book provides palliative care doctors and specialist nurses with practical guidelines to help manage and treat patients with breathlessness. It includes the science behind the symptom in an attempt to explain the pathology and physiology of this complex condition.
The book has been organized to address generalized aspects of breathlessness in advanced illness and more specific aetiologies and managements relevant to particular underlying diseases. It summarizes the epidemiology and the pathophysiology of breathlessness, measurement, research approaches, rehabilitation and exercise, clinical approaches that can be taken at the bedside, pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches, and surgical interventions.
The care of patients with dyspnoea requires input from a variety of disciplines such as palliative care, physiotherapy, respiratory medicine and nursing, and this is reflected in the multidisciplinary list of contributors.
Dyspnoea (breathlessness) is an uncomfortable awareness of breathing that occurs in approximately 30-75% of terminal cancer patients. It is one of the most distressing symptoms for both patients and family members and can seriously impact on quality of life. Typically, dyspnoea is associated with congestive heart failure, end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or lung cancer. This book provides palliative care doctors and specialist nurses with practical guidelines to help manage and treat patients with breathlessness. It includes the science behind the symptom in an attempt to explain the pathology and physiology of this complex condition.
The book has been organized to address generalized aspects of breathlessness in advanced illness and more specific aetiologies and managements relevant to particular underlying diseases. It summarizes the epidemiology and the pathophysiology of breathlessness, measurement, research approaches, rehabilitation and exercise, clinical approaches that can be taken at the bedside, pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches, and surgical interventions.
The care of patients with dyspnoea requires input from a variety of disciplines such as palliative care, physiotherapy, respiratory medicine and nursing, and this is reflected in the multidisciplinary list of contributors.
1. The genesis of breathlessness - what do we understand? ; 2. Multidimensional assessment of dyspnoea ; 3. Breathlessness in heart failure ; 4. Dyspnoea in chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder ; 5. Breathlessness in advanced cancer ; 6. Breathlessness in neurological disease ; 7. Breathlessness in children ; 8. Respiratory muscle function in breathlessness ; 9. Pulmonary rehabilitation ; 10. Surgical interventions to improve dyspnoea ; 11. Non-pharmacological approaches ; 12. Oxygen in the palliation of breathlessness ; 13. Pharmacological approaches to breathlessness ; 14. A palliative approach to the breathless patient
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 21.12.2005 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 15 black & white line illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 434 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Kardiologie / Angiologie |
| Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Innere Medizin ► Pneumologie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Onkologie | |
| Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Palliativmedizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-853003-X / 019853003X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-853003-9 / 9780198530039 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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