State of the Art for Refractory Cough: Multidisciplinary Approach

Abstract

Chronic cough is a common problem that can be refractory to medical treatment. Nonpharmaceutical management of chronic cough has an important role in well selected patients. This review article outlines the history of chronic cough management, current approaches to speech pathology management of the condition and new modalities of nonpharmaceutical treatment. There is a need for further research into nonpharmaceutical options with well described randomised control trials.

Keywords

• speech pathology
• nonpharmaceutical
• chronic cough
• inducible laryngeal obstruction
• vocal cord dysfunction