Distress from voluntary refusal of food and fluids to hasten death: What is the role of continuous deep sedation?

Journal of Medical Ethics

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 510-512

  Rady, Mohamed Y ^a,b   Verheijde, Joseph L ^b,c  

^a MAYO CLINIC HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT;

AGED; AGING; ASSISTED SUICIDE; DEEP SEDATION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICS; FLUID THERAPY; FOOD; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PATIENT CARE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGING; ARIZONA; DEEP SEDATION; FLUID THERAPY; FOOD; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SUICIDE, ASSISTED; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 84866307339     PISSN: 03066800     EISSN: 14734257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/medethics-2011-100278     Document Type: Note

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