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Supportive Care in Respiratory Disease

Sam H. Ahmedzai and Martin F. Muers

Abstract

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 in the palliation of respiratory symptoms, leading to practical ways of giving relief in hospices, hospitals, and at home. This book includes non-malignant respiratory diseases, such as tuberculosis ... More

Keywords: respiratory symptoms, breathlessness, cough, patients, advancing disease, incurable disease, cancer, cardiac disease, pulmonary disease, neuromuscular disorders

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2005 Print ISBN-13: 9780192631411
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2011 DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192631411.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Sam H. Ahmedzai, editor
Professor of Palliative Medicine, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK
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Martin F. Muers, editor
Respiratory Physician, Leeds General Infirmary, and Senior Lecturer, University of Leeds, UK

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface to the Supportive Care Series

Foreword

Preface

Contributors

Part I Supportive care in respiratory medicine

Chapter 1 The nature of palliation and its contribution to supportive care

Sam H. Ahmedzai

Chapter 2 Anatomy and physiology

MartinF.Muers

Chapter 3 Quality of life – models and measures of quality of life

Michael E. Hyland and Samantha C. Sodergren

Chapter 4 Complementary medicine for respiratory diseases

Jacqueline Filshie and Adrian White

Chapter 5 Economics applied to respiratory supportive care

Niels Neymark

Part II Mechanisms and assessment of dyspnoea

Chapter 6 Mechanisms of dyspnoea

Michael A. Gillette and Richard M. Schwartzstein

Chapter 7 Assessment of dyspnoea in research

HelenR.Harty and Lewis Adams

Chapter 8 Assessment of dyspnoea in clinical practice and audit

Eduardo Bruera and Catherine M. Neumann

Part III Management of dyspnoea

Chapter 9 Drug therapies

CarolDavis

Chapter 10 Oxygen and airflow

Sara Booth

Chapter 11 Rehabilitation and exercise

Jane Lindsay and Roger Goldstein

Chapter 12 Dyspnoea and respiratory muscle training

Hans Folgering and Yvonne Heijdra

Chapter 13 Psychosocial therapies

Rod Macleod

Chapter 14 Nutrition and cachexia

E.F.M.Wouters and A.M.W.J.Schols

Chapter 15 Occupational therapy and environmental modifications

Louise Sewell and Sally Singh

Part IV Dyspnoea in special situations

Chapter 16 Upper airflow obstruction

Martin R. Hetzel

Chapter 17 Diffuse airflow obstruction and ‘restrictive’ lung disease

Martin F. Muers

Chapter 18 Neuromuscular and skeletal diseases

John Shneerson

Chapter 19 Dyspnoea in motor neurone disease (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)

David Oliver

Chapter 20 Hyperventilation and disproportionate breathlessness

William N. Gardner and Alex Lewis

Part V Cough and haemoptysis

Chapter 21 Physiology and pathophysiology of cough

John Myers

Chapter 22 Chronic cough with a ‘normal’ chest radiograph

J. Mark Madison and Richard S. Irwin

Chapter 23 Massive haemoptysis: causes, assessment, and management

Peter R. Mills and Jadwiga A. Wedzicha

Chapter 24 The therapy of expectoration

Alyn H. Morice

Chapter 25 The management of cystic fibrosis

John W. Wilson and Thomas Kotsimbos

Part VI Pain

Chapter 26 Mechanisms of pain associated with respiratory disease

Carla Ripamonti and Fabio Fulfaro

Chapter 27 Pain in association with respiratory conditions: assessment in research and clinical practice

Nathan I. Cherny and Sam H. Ahmedzai

Chapter 28 Treating severe pain in advanced lung disease

Piotr Sobanski and Zbigniew Zylicz

Chapter 29 Pain in association with respiratory disease management: neurolytic procedures

W.W. A. Zuurmond and J. De Lange

Part VII Specific diseases

Chapter 30 Assessment and management of respiratory symptoms of malignant disease

Peter Hoskin and Sam H. Ahmedzai

Chapter 31 Comprehensive supportive care in HIV pulmonary disease

Elizabeth Bjorndal and Sam H. Ahmedzai

Chapter 32 Chronic infections: pulmonary tuberculosis

Suresh Kumar, Martin F. Muers, and Sam H. Ahmedzai

End Matter

Index