Susan Harrison

Isle of Wight Ambulance Service

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Words used by the breathless patient in COPD and enhancing therapeutic care

‘There is no more frightening and unpleasant feeling than that of feeling breathlessness and the sense of impending death’. .

Does understanding words used by the breathless COPD patient enhance therapeutic care?

‘Respiratory disease is the most common illness responsible for an emergency admission to hospital’ The British Lung Foundation (BLF), (BLF, 2007).