Supportive Care in Respiratory Disease

by Ahmedzai, Sam H.; Muers, Martin F.

• ISBN13: 9780192631411
• ISBN10: 0192631411
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-21
• 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 book includes non-malignant respiratory diseases such as tuberculosis in AIDS patients; ventilator-dependent patients and cystic fibrosis and focuses on aetiology and diagnosis and management, emphasizing 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. Aimed primarily at specialists in palliative care, oncology and respiratory physicians; doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and pharmacists will also be interested. The book will appeal to those working in 'acute' specialties such as cardiology or pulmonary medicine, whose patients are not usually considered for palliative care, but in whom relief of distressing respiratory problems could improve the quality of life.

Table of Contents

Contributors	xv
Part I Supportive care in respiratory medicine
The nature of palliation and its contribution to supportive care	3	(36)
Sam H. Ahmedzai
Anatomy and physiology	39	(18)
Martin F. Muers
Quality of life - models and measures of quality of life	57	(10)
Michael E. Hyland
Samantha C. Sodergren
Complementary medicine for respiratory diseases	67	(12)
Jacqueline Filshie
Adrian White
Economics applied to respiratory supportive care	79	(14)
Niels Neymark
Part II Mechanisms and assessment of dyspnoea
Mechanisms of dyspnoea	93	(30)
Michael A. Gillette
Richard M. Schwartzstein
Assessment of dyspnoea in research	123	(12)
Helen R. Harty
Lewis Adams
Assessment of dyspnoea in clinical practice and audit	135	(12)
Eduardo Bruera
Catherine M. Neumann
Part III Management of dyspnoea
Drug therapies	147	(18)
Carol Davis
Oxygen and airflow	165	(24)
Sara Booth
Rehabilitation and exercise	189	(26)
Jane Lindsay
Roger Goldstein
Dyspnoea and respiratory muscle training	215	(14)
Hans Folgering
Yvonne Heijdra
Psychosocial therapies	229	(10)
Rod MacLeod
Nutrition and cachexia	239	(10)
E.F.M. Wouters
A.M.W.J. Schols
Occupational therapy and environmental modifications	249	(16)
Louise Sewell
Sally Singh
Part IV Dyspnoea in special situations
Upper airflow obstruction	265	(16)
Martin R. Hetzel
Diffuse airflow obstruction and `restrictive' lung disease	281	(26)
Martin F. Muers
Neuromuscular and skeletal diseases	307	(10)
John Shneerson
Dyspnoea in motor neurone disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)	317	(6)
David Oliver
Hyperventilation and disproportionate breathlessness	323	(18)
William N. Gardner
Alex Lewis
Part V Cough and haemoptysis
Physiology and pathophysiology of cough	341	(24)
John Myers
Chronic cough with a `normal' chest radiograph	365	(6)
J. Mark Madison
Richard S. Irwin
Massive haemoptysis: causes, assessment, and management	371	(10)
Peter R. Mills
Jadwiga A. Wedzicha
The therapy of expectoration	381	(10)
Alyn H. Morice
The management of cystic fibrosis	391	(22)
John W. Wilson
Thomas Kotsimbos
Part VI Pain
Mechanisms of pain associated with respiratory disease	413	(14)
Carla Ripamonti
Fabio Fulfaro
Pain in association with respiratory conditions: assessment in research and clinical practice	427	(12)
Nathan I. Cherny
Sam H. Ahmedzai
Treating severe pain in advanced lung disease	439	(14)
Piotr Sobanski
Zbigniew Zylicz
Pain in association with respiratory disease management: neurolytic procedures	453	(10)
W.W.A. Zuurmond
J.J. de Lange
Part VII Specific diseases
Assessment and management of respiratory symptoms of malignant disease	463	(24)
Peter Hoskin
Sam H. Ahmedzai
Comprehensive supportive care in HIV pulmonary disease	487	(28)
Elizabeth Bjorndal
Sam H. Ahmedzai
Chronic infections: pulmonary tuberculosis	515
Suresh Kumar
Martin F. Muers
Sam H. Ahmedzai