Relieving chronic breathlessness is a human right
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- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Palliative Medicine in Practice, 2018, 12 (1), pp. 8 - 10
- Issue Date:
- 2018-05-02
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Copyright © Via Medica. Chronic breathlessness, defined as breathlessness that persists despite optimising the treatment of underlying causes, is recognised by recent international consensus as a distinct clinical syndrome. Across our communities, population-based studies of chronic breathlessness expose an enormous burden from this. Among the palliative care population, one in four people die with severe breathlessness despite treatment from a palliative care service. Recently, the relief of breathlessness was claimed to be a human right, particularly when there are treatments available to alleviate the unnecessary suffering caused by chronic breathlessness. The timely recognition of, and response to chronic breathlessness is a crucial clinical skill.
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