Supportive Care in Respiratory Disease

by David C. Currow, David R. Baldwin, Sam H. Ahmedzai

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199591768
• ISBN13: 9780199591763
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.7" x 9.6"