Fooling the brain to alleviate dyspnoea
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Dyspnoea affects a multitude of patients with a multitude of diseases, and therefore concerns a multitude of physicians and other healthcare professionals. In view of the physical and psychological distress associated with dyspnoea, and in view of the pervasive impact of dyspnoea on the patient’s psychological state and social life [1, 2], relieving dyspnoea should constitute a leading and universal clinical goal. Some have even proposed that failing to provide a patient with dyspnoea with “state of the art” management of this symptom would constitute an infringement of human rights [3, 4].
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