Non-invasive ventilation and palliation: Experience in a district general hospital and a review

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 21-26

  Shee, Charles D ^a   Green, Margaret ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

NIPPV; NIV; Non invasive ventilation; Palliation; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BRONCHODILATING AGENT; DEXAMETHASONE; DIAMORPHINE; DIAZEPAM; LOFEPRAMINE; LORAZEPAM; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE SULFATE; OXYGEN; PREDNISOLONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; FACE MASK; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOME CARE; HUMAN; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDER; OXYGEN THERAPY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; VENTILATOR;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; EMPHYSEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MYELOPROLIFERATIVE DISORDERS; PALLIATIVE CARE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SYRINGOMYELIA; TERMINALLY ILL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037275752     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269216303pm659oa     Document Type: Article

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