Palliative sedation: Why we should be more concerned about the risks that patients experience an uncomfortable death

Pain

Volumn 154, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1505-1508

  Deschepper, Reginald ^a   Laureys, Steven ^b   Hachimi Idrissi, Said ^c   Poelaert, Jan ^a   Distelmans, Wim ^d   Bilsen, Johan ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^d UZ Palliative and Supportive Care   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; DEATH; DYING; EUTHANASIA; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT COMFORT; PATIENT MONITORING; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SEDATION; SELF REPORT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AWARENESS; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; PALLIATIVE CARE; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84881667544     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pain.2013.04.038     Document Type: Review

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