Full Description
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.
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
1. Dyspnea Assessment
Margaret L. Campbell
2. Reducing Dyspnea by Optimizing COPD Treatment
Miranda Wilhelm & Jennifer Arnoldi
3. Treating Chronic Severe COPD Breathlessness
Lynn F. Reinke, Mary M. Roberts, and Tracy A. Smith
4. Dyspnea, COPD, and Pulmonary Rehabilitation
DorAnne Donesky and Julie Howard
5. Treating Episodic Breathlessness
Yvonne Eisenmann and Steffen Simon
6. Reducing Episodic Dyspnea in Heart Failure
Beth B. Fahlberg and Ann S. Laramee
7. Dyspnea in Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease
Jennifer Wright and Jessica L. Spruit
8. Treating Chronic Dyspnea in Patients with Lung Cancer
Elizabeth A. Higgins, Susan Ezemenari, & Julia Arana West
9. Treading Dyspnea through Reducing Malignant Pleural Effusion
Christine A. Crader
10. Treating Dyspnea in Lung Cancer with Non-invasive Ventilation
Vittoria Comellini and Stefano Nava
11. Palliative Care for Infants with Broncopulmonary Dysplasia
Christine A. Fortney & Jodi A. Ulloa
12. Reducing Dyspnea by Treating Ascites
Habib A. Khan
13. Panting for Breath in End-Stage Dementia
Hermien W. Goderie-Plomp, Carole Parsons, David R. Mehr, & Jenny T. van der Steen
14. Last Days with COPD
Margaret L. Campbell
15. Withdrawal of Invasive Mechanical Ventillation
Margaret L. Campbell
16. Palliative Sedation for Intractable Dyspnea
Patricia Bramati and Eduardo Bruera
17. Sialorrhea in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Mark B. Bromberg
18. Death Rattle
Margaret L. Campbell
