Recent Advances in the Management of Breathlessness

Breathlessness is a frightening symptom to both witness and experience. It is common in many conditions, especially in the palliative setting, profoundly affecting the quality of the person’s life. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the recent advances in the management of brea...

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Autor principal: Breaden, Katrina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3140084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21811366
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.76238
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description Breathlessness is a frightening symptom to both witness and experience. It is common in many conditions, especially in the palliative setting, profoundly affecting the quality of the person’s life. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the recent advances in the management of breathlessness in the areas of, knowledge of disease trajectories, assessment, pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions and the use of oxygen.
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spelling pubmed-31400842011-08-02 Recent Advances in the Management of Breathlessness Breaden, Katrina Indian J Palliat Care Review Article Breathlessness is a frightening symptom to both witness and experience. It is common in many conditions, especially in the palliative setting, profoundly affecting the quality of the person’s life. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the recent advances in the management of breathlessness in the areas of, knowledge of disease trajectories, assessment, pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions and the use of oxygen. Medknow Publications 2011-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3140084/ /pubmed/21811366 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.76238 Text en © Indian Journal of Palliative Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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