Sedation in end-of-life care - Ethical aspects;Sterbende sedieren?

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 129, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 701-704

  Muller Busch H C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b Abt f Anasthesiologie Palliativmedizin und Schmerztherapie am Gemeinschaftskrankenhaus Havelhohe   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGER; CANCER; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHICS; GERMANY; HUMAN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; SEDATION; STRESS; SYMPTOM; TERMINAL CARE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ATTITUDE TO DEATH; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; PAIN; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 1842484377     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-821374     Document Type: Review

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