What Do I Do Now: Respiratory Symptoms is the first book of its kind to succinctly describe the palliative care approach to patients experiencing respiratory symptoms throughout their illness trajectory. Dyspnea, also known as breathlessness, is one of the most difficult symptoms to experience and is also one of the most difficult to treat as the evidence-base for this symptom lags behind other prevalent symptoms, such as pain or nausea.
This volume brings together expertise from the fields of nursing, chaplaincy, social work, and psychology to address dyspnea from a palliative care context. Covering patients ranging from pediatric to geriatric, each chapter opens with a case study and provides context for the practical clinical content that follows.
Author(s): Margaret L. Campbell
Series: What Do I Do Now
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 174
City: New York
Cover
Series
Respiratory Symptoms
Copyright
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
1. Dyspnea Assessment
2. Reducing Dyspnea by Optimizing Treatment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
3. Treating Chronic Breathlessness in Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
4. Dyspnea, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
5. Treating Episodic Breathlessness
6. Reducing Episodic Dyspnea in Heart Failure
7. Dyspnea in Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease
8. Treating Chronic Dyspnea in Patients with Lung Cancer
9. Treating Dyspnea Through Reducing Malignant Pleural Effusion
10. Treating Dyspnea in Lung Cancer with Noninvasive Ventilation
11. Palliative Care for Infants with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
12. Reducing Dyspnea by Treating Ascites
13. Panting for Breath in End-​Stage Dementia
14. Last Days with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
15. Withdrawal of Invasive Mechanical Ventilation
16. Palliative Sedation for Intractable Dyspnea
17. Sialorrhea in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
18. Death Rattle
Index
