• Revue médicale suisse · Feb 2008

    [Clinical and practical aspects of palliative sedation].

    • Karine Moynier-Vantieghem and Michel Beauverd.
    • Service de médecine palliative, Département de réhabilitation et gériatrie II, ch. de la Savonnière 1245 Collonge-Bellerive, CHUV, Lausanne. karine.moynier@hcuge.ch
    • Rev Med Suisse. 2008 Feb 20;4(145):462-6.

    AbstractPatients at the end-of-life may present with refractory symptoms which cannot be adequately relieved despite the use of all traditional means. When refractory symptoms lead to intolerable suffering, palliative sedation is a last recourse temporary or definitive treatment. While discussing ethical issues, clinical practice dimensions of palliative sedation are explored in this article.

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