Palliative sedation in end-of-life care

Current Opinion in Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 360-367

  Maltoni, Marco ^a   Scarpi, Emanuela ^a   Nanni, Oriana ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

end of life; palliative care; palliative sedation

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; CHLORPROMAZINE; HALOPERIDOL; LEVOMEPROMAZINE; MIDAZOLAM; MORPHINE; PHENOBARBITAL; PROPOFOL;

ADVANCED CANCER; BLEEDING; CANCER PATIENT; DELIRIUM; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DYSPNEA; EUTHANASIA; HUMAN; HYDRATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALPRACTICE; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT COMFORT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PRURITUS; REVIEW; SEDATION; SURVIVAL; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VOMITING;

CONSCIOUS SEDATION; DEEP SEDATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84879888463     PISSN: 10408746     EISSN: 1531703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCO.0b013e3283622c47     Document Type: Review

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