Managing Breathlessness in Clinical Practice - Softcover

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Dr.Sara Booth founded the Cambridge Breathlessness Intervention Service (CBIS) in 2004 based on work she started some ten years earlier. Dr Booth is an experienced researcher as well as clinician and has a worldwide reputation in caring for patients with breathlessness. The CBIS concept has been copied in other parts of the world and Dr Booth has lectured at many conferences for oncologists and respiratory as well as palliative care clinicians on the management of breathlessness. Dr Booth was the first chair of the National Cancer Institute’s Breathlessness Research Group. Ms Julie Burkin is a specialist OT who has worked in hospices and cancer centres caring for breathless patients. She is now the lead clinician for CBIS and has lectured widely, nationally and internationally, on the management of breathlessness. Ms Catherine Moffat is a specialist physiotherapist who has a particular interest in breathing exercises – a poorly researched area she has made her own. Ms Moffat is designing research in this area and has also lectured widely on the work of CBIS and the management of breathlessness.

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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.