Continuous Sedation at the End of Life
Sigrid Sterckx, Kasper Raus, Freddy Mortier (Eds.)
Continuous sedation until death (sometimes referred to as terminal sedation or palliative sedation) is an increasingly common practice in end-of-life care. However, it raises numerous medical, ethical, emotional and legal concerns, such as the reducing or removing of consciousness (and thus potentially causing 'subjective death'), the withholding of artificial nutrition and hydration, the proportionality of the sedation to the symptoms, its adequacy in actually relieving symptoms rather than simply giving onlookers the...
Anno:
2013
Casa editrice:
Cambridge University Press
Lingua:
english
ISBN 10:
1107039215
ISBN 13:
9781107039216
Collana:
Cambridge Bioethics and Law
File:
PDF, 3.60 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2013
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