Morphine is still the best pharmacological treatment for chronic breathlessness, according to an extensive review of the literature. Co-author of the review published in Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine Professor David Currow told the limbic the inability to tolerate morphine was relatively rare however some physician resistance remained due to confusion about the risk of respiratory depression. ...
COPD
Short on drug options for short of breath patients
By Mardi Chapman
16 Mar 2017