Fifty-six death;Cincuenta y seis muertes

Revista Espanola de Geriatria y Gerontologia

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 244-248

  Marin Gamez N ^a   Kessel Sardinas H ^a,b   Bamosi Marin A C ^a   Rodriguez Galdeano M ^a   Lazo Torres, A Ma ^a   Collado Romacho, A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL TORRECÁRDENAS   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dying; Suffering; Terminal sedation

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEATH; DYING; DYSPNEA; EXHAUSTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NEOPLASM; PAIN; PATERNALISM; PATIENT INFORMATION; RESUSCITATION; SEDATION; TERMINAL DISEASE; VOMITING;

EID: 0037679007     PISSN: 0211139X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0211-139x(02)74817-8     Document Type: Article

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