Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 436 g
A Guide to Clinical Management
Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 436 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-853003-9
Verlag: OUP Oxford
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.
Zielgruppe
Palliative care doctors, specialist nurses, oncologists, and physicians in other disciplines who are responsible for the care of patients with advanced disease
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Physiotherapie, Physikalische Therapie Ergotherapie, Kreativtherapie (z. B. Kunst, Musik, Theater)
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Palliativmedizin
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pflege Palliativpflege, Sterbebegleitung, Hospiz
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Allgemeinmedizin, Familienmedizin
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Kardiologie, Angiologie, Phlebologie
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Pneumologie, Atmung, Asthma
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Onkologie, Krebsforschung
Weitere Infos & Material
- 1: Douglas Beach and Richard M. Schwartzstein: The genesis of breathlessness - what do we understand?
- 2: Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman and Deborah Dudgeon: Multidimensional assessment of dyspnoea
- 3: David P. Dutka and Miriam J. Johnson: Breathlessness in heart failure
- 4: Michelle M. Peters and Denis O'Donnell: Dyspnoea in chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder
- 5: Deborah Dudgeon: Breathlessness in advanced cancer
- 6: Fliss Murtagh, Rachel Burman and Polly Edmonds: Breathlessness in neurological disease
- 7: Stephen Liben: Breathlessness in children
- 8: Michael Polkey: Respiratory muscle function in breathlessness
- 9: Nha Voduc, Katherine Webb and Denis O'Donnell: Pulmonary rehabilitation
- 10: Andrew J. Drain and Francis C. Wells: Surgical interventions to improve dyspnoea
- 11: Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman: Non-pharmacological approaches
- 12: Anna Spathis, Rosemary Wade and Sara Booth: Oxygen in the palliation of breathlessness
- 13: David C. Currow: Pharmacological approaches to breathlessness
- 14: Sara Booth and Deborah Dudgeon: A palliative approach to the breathless patient





