Supportive Care in Respiratory Disease

by Ahmedzai, Sam H.; Baldwin, David R.; Currow, David C.

• ISBN13: 9780199591763
• ISBN10: 0199591768
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Respiratory symptoms such as breathlessness and cough are common in patients with advancing and incurable disease. For example, cancer, chronic cardiac and pulmonary disease, progressive neuromuscular disorders and degenerative disorders all give rise to varying degrees of respiratory distress which adversely affects the patient's quality of life. In recent years, there has been significant growth into the palliation of respiratory symptoms leading to practical ways of giving relief in hospices, hospitals and at home. The second edition of this popular title in the Supportive Care series includes non-malignant respiratory diseases such as tuberculosis in AIDS patients, cystic fibrosis and ventilator-dependent patients, and focuses on aetiology and diagnosis and management, emphasising symptoms, quality of life and psychosocial support. The underlying theme of the book is the application of modern research-based knowledge, in a humane way, for patients with advancing disease.

Table of Contents

Supportive care in respiratory medicine

Palliation and supportive care

Anatomy and physiology

Quality of life: models and measurement

Principles of economic evaluation

Mechanisms and assessment of dyspnoea

The genesis of breathlessness - what do we understand?

Multidimensional assessment of dyspnoea

Management of dyspnoea

Pharmacological treatment of respiratory symptoms

Oxygen and airflow

Occupational therapy and environmental modifications

Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman and Dor

Non-pharmacological strategies for dyspnoea

Nutrition and cachexia

Dyspnoea in special situations

Diffuse airflow obstruction and 'restrictive' lung disease

Neuromuscular and skeletal diseases, and obstructive sleep apnoea

Hyperventilation syndrome

Cough and haemoptysis

Physiology and pathophysiology of cough

Expectoration: Pathophysiology, measurement and therapy

Pain

Pain in respiratory disease - mechanisms and management

Pain assessment in respiratory disease

Specific diseases

Supportive care in Cystic Fibrosis

Assessment and management of respiratory symptoms of malignant disease

Comprehensive supportive care for chronic pulmonary infections

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