Dr Anna Spathis is a  Consultant in Palliative Care and Consultant Lead for Breathlessness Intervention Service -  and you can learn more about her here - https://www.phpc.cam.ac.uk/people/pcu-group/pcu-senior-academic-staff/anna-spathis/


Show Notes


In this episode Dr Spathis talks with podcast host Dr Sara Booth about :-


The Effects of Covid


Exploring the different types of patient being treated


The difficulties of Long Covid


Managing symptoms


Vicious Cycles of emotional responses 


Remote working


Evaluating outcomes -


The variety of referral services


consequences of the lack of understanding on the patient group


The importance of Transdiagnosis




Papers mentioned in this podcast


Spathis A, Booth S, Moffat C, Hurst R, Ryan R, Chin C, Burkin J. The Breathing, Thinking, Functioning clinical model: a proposal to facilitate evidence-based breathlessness management in chronic respiratory disease. NPJ Primary Care Respiratory Medicine 2017; 27(1):27. DOI: 10.1038/s41533-017-0024-z


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