Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
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Acta Anaesthesiol Scand · Oct 2020
Clinical and ethical aspects of palliative sedation with propofol - a retrospective quantitative and qualitative study.
The anesthetic propofol is often mentioned as a drug that can be used in palliative sedation. The existing literature of how to use propofol in palliative sedation is scarce, with lack of information about how propofol could be initiated for palliative sedation, doses and treatment outcomes. ⋯ In palliative care, some patients at the end of life can reach a stage where there have been maximal analgesic and or anxiolytic treatments though without achieving comfort in the awake state. This report describes and discusses use of propofol in these infrequent cases to relieve suffering as part of palliative care.