Opiates at the end of life in an emergency department in Spain: Euthanasia or good clinical practice?

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1086-1087

  Del Nogal Saez F ^a  

^a HOSPITAL SEVERO OCHOA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPIATE;

DYING; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EUTHANASIA; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL ETHICS; MORTALITY; NOTE; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RELIGION; SEDATION; SPAIN; TERMINAL CARE;

ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DECISION MAKING; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RELIGION AND MEDICINE; SPAIN; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 33745465085     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-006-0140-7     Document Type: Note

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