Oxygen or air for palliation of breathlessness in advanced cancer

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 215-218

  Booth, Sara ^b   Wade, Rosemary ^a  

^a Box 193   (United Kingdom)

^b St Nicholas Hospice Care   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADVANCED CANCER; AIR; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANEMIA; ANXIETY; ASTHMA; BREATHING MUSCLE; BRONCHOSPASM; CACHEXIA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; FIBROSIS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; HYPOXIA; INFECTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG COLLAPSE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG VENTILATION; LYMPHANGITIS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MUSCLE FORCE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PARANEOPLASTIC SYNDROME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PREDICTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATION LOAD; RESPIRATORY DRIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CARE; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT;

EID: 0038026103     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.96.5.215     Document Type: Review

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