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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…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
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.
Autorenporträt
Edited by Sara Booth, Macmillan Consultant in Palliative Medicine and Director of Palliative Care Service, Addenbrooke's Palliative Care Service, Cambridge, UK and Deborah Dudgeon, W. Ford Connell Professor of Palliative Care Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Contributors: Douglas Beach, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA Sara Booth, Macmillan Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Addenbrooke's Palliative Care Service, Cambridge, UK Rachel Burman, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, King's College Hospital Palliative Care Team. London, UK Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman, Professor, Department of Physiological Nursing, University of California, San Francisco, USA David Currow, Professor, Department of Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders University, South Australia; Director, Southern Adelaide Palliative Services, Daw Park, South Australia Andrew J. Drain, Specialist Registrar, Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK Deborah Dudgeon, W. Ford Connell Professor of Palliative Care Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada David P. Dutka, Lecturer in Cardiovascular Medicine and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist, Addenbrooke's NHS Trust, Cambridge, UK Polly Edmonds, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, King's College Hospital Palliative Care Team, London, UK Miriam Johnson, Consultant Palliative Physician, St Catherine's Hospice, Scarborough, UK Stephen Liben, Director, Palliative Care Program, The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Center; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Fliss Murtagh, Specialist Registrar, King's College Hospital Palliative Care Team, London, UK Denis O'Donnell, Professor of Medicine and Physiology; Head, Division of Respirology and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Michelle M. Peters, MSC Candidate, Physiology, Queen's University, Kingston; Research Associate, Kingston General Hospital, Ontario, Canada Michael Polkey, Consultant Physician and Reader in Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital/National Heart and Lung Institute, London, UK Richard M. Schwartzstein, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Clinical Director, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA Anna Spathis, Specialist Registrar in Palliative Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Nha Voduc, Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada Rosemary Wade, Consultant in Palliative Medicine, West Suffolk Hospitals NHS Trust, Bury St Edmonds, UK Katherine Webb, Research Associate, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada Francis C. Wells, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Papworth and Addenbrooke's Hospital; Associate Lecturer in Surgery, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK