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End of Life Online Curriculum
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Dyspnea: How to Assess and Palliate Dyspnea (Air-Hunger) |
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Dyspnea is a subjective sensation, so the only way to assess dyspnea is to ask the patient. Intensity of dyspenea can be assessed by bedside observation (unable to talk or eat uninterupted for breath) and by caregiver reports. Assessment Flowchart, Part 1
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Home | Project Website | ©End of Life Curriculum Project, a joint project of the US Veterans Administration and SUMMIT, Stanford University Medical School. Funded by a grant to the Veterans Administration Nationwide Palliative Care Network by the National Library of Medicine. VJ Periyakoil, Principal Investigator.
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Flow charts created by VJ Periyakoil of the EOL Project c2004.
2006-05-01
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