End-of-life care in a COPD patient awaiting lung transplantation: A case report

BMC Palliative Care

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Janssen, Daisy Ja ^a,b,c   Spruit, Martijn A ^a   Does, Joan D ^a   Schols, Jos Mga ^d   Wouters, Emiel F M ^a,e  

^a Ciro   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Proteion Thuis ^*  (Netherlands)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; MORPHINE; OXYGEN;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARM EXERCISE; ART THERAPY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREATHING EXERCISE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COUNSELING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSPNEA; EDEMA; ENDURANCE TRAINING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MUSCLE TRAINING; OXYGEN THERAPY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PULMONARY REHABILITATION; TERMINAL CARE; TRANSCUTANEOUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 77951555606     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472684X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-684X-9-6     Document Type: Article

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