Expert-approved best practice recommendations on the use of sedative drugs and intentional sedation in specialist palliative care (SedPall)

Expert-approved best practice recommendations on the use of sedative drugs and intentional sedation in specialist palliative care (SedPall)

Abstract Background The use of sedative drugs and intentional sedation in end-of-life care is associated with clinical, ethical and legal challenges. In view of these and of the issue’s great importance to patients undergoing intolerable suffering, we conducted a project titled SedPall (“From anxiol...

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Main Authors: Christoph Ostgathe, Claudia Bausewein, Eva Schildmann, Jeremias Bazata, Violet Handtke, Maria Heckel, Carsten Klein, Alexander Kremling, Sandra Kurkowski, Sophie Meesters, Andreas Seifert, Jorge Luis Torres Cavazos, Kerstin Ziegler, Christian Jäger, Jan Schildmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-09-01
Series:BMC Palliative Care
Subjects:
Palliative care
Terminal care
Hypnotics and sedatives
Practice guidelines
Empirical research
Community-based participatory research
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-023-01243-z

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