Breathlessness is increasingly recognised as a common, disabling symptom of many advanced diseases and one that is very difficult to treat. There is now an understanding that a multi-disciplinary approach to management can make a significant impact on the severity of the symptom improving both the patient’s and their carers’ quality of life. Breathlessness is one of the most difficult conditions that palliative care (and other clinicians who care for patients with advanced disease) have to treat. With the improvements in pain control, it is possibly now the most difficult symptom for clinicians to manage: many feel frustrated at not being able to give their patients better care.  Many patients and families are enduring terrible suffering. There has been little progress in improving the symptom, in spite of an increase in the amount of research and interest in it over the last twenty years. The Cambridge Breathlessness Intervention Service (CBIS) has been established since 2004 and is a research-based service which has being evaluated since its inception: its model of caring has been shaped by the patients and families who use it and the clinicians who refer to it. CBIS has firm evidence of its effectiveness with patients with breathlessness with both malignant and non-malignant disease. This book will help others to manage breathlessness in their day-to-day clinical practice and, if so desired, set up their own breathlessness service. There is a well-established website which can be used in conjunction with the book. The book is written to give practical help in the clinical management of breathlessness and written so that the information is easy to access in clinic, ward or home.

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Booth, Sara, Burkin, Julie, Moffat, Catherine, Spathis, Anna

Springer London : Imprint : Springer

Springer London, Limited

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Springer Nature, London, 2014

2014, 2013

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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 manage breathlessness in their current clinical setting and describe the breathlessness service model which can be adapted for use in any situation. It uses a model of care based on interventions for breathing, thinking and functioning. Breathlessness Management in Clinical Practice is an invaluable resource for those working in the respiratory medicine, oncology and cardiology and other specialties where breathlessness is commonly managed although less recognised like nephrology and neurology. It will be of help to occupational therapists, physiotherapists and specialist nurses as well as physicians. It will also be of interest to anyone who wishes to increase their knowledge of the advances in evidence that now enable clinicians to offer much improved care for those suffering with frightening symptom of breathlessness

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Breathlessness; the Experience for the Patient, an Approach for the Clinician....Pages 3-16
The Genesis and Assessment of Breathlessness....Pages 17-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Fan and Oxygen Therapy....Pages 33-47
Positions to Ease Breathlessness....Pages 49-65
Breathing Techniques for Breathlessness....Pages 67-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Anxiety Management....Pages 115-127
Energy Conservation....Pages 129-140
Front Matter....Pages 141-141
Exercise and Activity Promotion....Pages 143-172
Supporting Carers....Pages 173-186
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Pharmacological Management of Breathlessness....Pages 189-206
Care Towards the End of Life for the Breathless Patient....Pages 207-222
An Approach to the Breathless Patient....Pages 223-255
Back Matter....Pages 257-265

Sara Booth, Julie Burkin, Catherine Moffat, Anna Spathis. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web.

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Erscheinungsdatum: 15.11.2013

2014-02-12