Dyspnoea in advanced disease a guide to clinical management / edited by Sara Booth, Deborah Dudgeon.
| Other author | Booth, Sara, Dr. |
| Other author | Dudgeon, Deborah. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, |
| Description | xii, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The genesis of breathlessness : what do we understand? / Douglas Beach and Richard M. Schwartzstein -- Multidimensional assessment of dyspnea / Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman and Deborah Dudgeon -- Breathlessness in heart failure / David P. Dutka and Miriam J. Johnson -- Dyspnea in chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder / Michelle M. Peters and Denis E. O'Donnell -- Breathlessness in advanced cancer / Deborah Dudgeon -- Breathlessness in neurological disease / Fliss Murtagh, Rachel Burman and Polly Edmonds -- Breathlessness in children / Stephen Liben -- Respiratory muscle function in breathlessness / Michael Polkey -- |
| Contents | Pulmonary rehabilitation / Nha Voduc, Katherine Webb and Denis E. O'Donnell -- Surgical interventions to improve dyspnoea / Andrew J. Drain and Francis C. Wells -- Non-pharmacological approaches / Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman -- Oxygen in the palliation of breathlessness / Anna Spathis, Rosemary Wade and Sara Booth -- Pharmacological approaches to breathlessness / David C. Currow -- A palliative approach to the breathless patient / Sara Booth and Deborah Dudgeon. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2005016392 |
| ISBN | 019853003X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780198530039 |