Chronic breathlessness: re-thinking the symptom

What is it about?

The foremost burden of Chronic Breathlessness is not sensory, but rather the functional confinement that breathlessness imposes on an individual. In Chronic Breathlessness, affective and cognitive perceptions relate more to loss of function, socialisation, and fulfilment, and to fear of suffocation and death. Chronic Breathlessness Syndrome provides an identifiable profile to bring patient experience into view, help them access evidence-based interventions and to stimulate research into the complexity of breathlessness in order to identify future therapeutic targets

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