Palliative sedation: Welcome guidance on a controversial issue

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 577-579

  Hauser, Katherine ^a   Walsh, Declan ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BROMIDE; CHLORAL HYDRATE; CHLORPROMAZINE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; SEDATIVE AGENT;

AGITATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DELIRIUM; EDITORIAL; EUTHANASIA; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HYDRATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL DISEASE; MYOCLONUS; NUTRITION; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE SEDATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; RESTLESSNESS; SEDATION; SPIRITUAL CARE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

DECISION MAKING; DEEP SEDATION; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC;

EID: 71049154934     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216309107022     Document Type: Editorial

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