A 70-year-old woman with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is breathless at rest and has a prognosis of months. She is not responding to ...

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A 70-year-old woman with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is breathless at rest and has a prognosis of months. She is not responding to maximal inhaler therapy. According to palliative care guidance, which medication is appropriate to help relieve her refractory breathlessness

Accepted Answer

Oral Morphine in low doses

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High-dose Benzodiazepines as first-line

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Long-term high-flow oxygen for all

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Intravenous Frusemide

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No pharmacological option is appropriate

uk-plab-1 MCQ (SBA): Refractory breathlessness in palliative care

A 70-year-old woman with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is breathless at rest and has a prognosis of months. She is not responding to maximal inhaler therapy. According to palliative care guidance, which medication is appropriate to help relieve her refractory breathlessness