ISBN : 9780199591763
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.
PART 1 SUPPORTIVE CARE IN RESPIRATORY MEDICINE
1. Palliation and supportive care
2. Anatomy and physiology
3. Quality of life: models and measurement
4. Principles of economic evaluation
PART 2 MECHANISMS AND ASSESSMENT OF DYSPNOEA
5. The genesis of breathlessness - what do we understand?
6. Multidimensional assessment of dyspnoea
PART 3 MANAGEMENT OF DYSPNOEA
7. Pharmacological treatment of respiratory symptoms
8. Oxygen and airflow
9. Occupational therapy and environmental modifications
10. Non-pharmacological strategies for dyspnoea
11. Nutrition and cachexia
PART 4 DYSPNOEA IN SPECIAL SITUATIONS
12. Diffuse airflow obstruction and 'restrictive' lung disease
13. Neuromuscular and skeletal diseases, and obstructive sleep apnoea
14. Hyperventilation syndrome
PART 5 COUGH AND HAEMOPTYSIS
15. Physiology and pathophysiology of cough
16. Expectoration: Pathophysiology, measurement and therapy
PART 6 PAIN
17. Pain in respiratory disease - mechanisms and management
18. Pain assessment in respiratory disease
PART 7 SPECIFIC DISEASES
19. Supportive care in Cystic Fibrosis
20. Assessment and management of respiratory symptoms of malignant disease
21. Comprehensive supportive care for chronic pulmonary infections
