Does pharmacological treatment affect the sensation of breathlessness in terminal cancer patients?
- 1 July 1991
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Palliative Medicine
- Vol. 5 (3) , 237-243
- https://doi.org/10.1177/026921639100500309
Abstract
The authors review the pathophysiology, assessment and drug treatment of dyspnoea. Specific drug treatments discussed are theophylline, antiprostaglandins, benzodiazepines, phenothiazines, opioids and local anaesthetics.Keywords
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