PMID: 9424403Mar 1, 1997Paper

Assessment and management of dyspnoea

Respirology : Official Journal of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology
D Joffe, N Berend

Abstract

The terms 'dyspnoea' or 'breathlessness' refer to an individual's subjective awareness of discomfort related to the act of breathing. Elevations in CO2 above normal levels have been shown to cause breathlessness although it is unlikely to be the sole cause of breathlessness in a clinical setting. Several studies suggest that supplemental O2 during exercise will diminish the sensation of breathlessness although not all work has confirmed this finding. Much about the role of gas exchange in dyspnogenesis remains controversial. Phrenic blockade can abolish dyspnoea in response to breath-holding, while work in quadriplegics suggests that the intercostal muscles are not involved. A separate and direct pathway from the respiratory centre to the sensory cortex has also be implicated. Threshold discrimination has established that patients with chronic airflow limitation (CAL) have a blunted response to the addition of resistive loads to breathing, while category scaling methods (e.g. the Borg scale) have added descriptive terms to these physiological measures. Questionnaires often appear limited by their subjectivity and lack of correlation with physiological changes, but remain a useful tool in the clinical setting. In regard to thera...Continue Reading

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