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End of Life Online Curriculum - Modules
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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 dyspnea can be assessed by bedside observation (unable to talk
or eat uninterrupted for breath) and by caregiver reports.
Assessment Flowchart, Part 1
Flow charts created by VJ Periyakoil, MD.
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©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, MD, Director.
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