Managing Breathlessness in Clinical Practice

• Main Authors: Booth, Sara (Author), Burkin, Julie (Author), Moffat, Catherine (Author), Spathis, Anna (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.

Breathlessness Management in Clinical Practice presents evidence-based practical techniques for helping the breathless patient with advanced disease of any aetiology used in the Cambridge Breathlessness Intervention Service (CBIS). This book will help individuals in the multidisciplinary team both m...

Table of Contents:

• 1. What is breathlessness and how is it caused?
• 2. First assessment
• 3. Helping carers
• 4. Core non-pharmacological interventions
• 5. Pharmacological Interventions
• 6. End of life care for breathless patients
• 7. Problem solving
• 8. Communicating with other services
• 9. Discharging end of life liaison with other services
• 10. Evaluating your service
• 11. Practical tips
• 12. Place of breathlessness
• 13. Intervention services with other services.