Dr. Jose Pereira, the medical chief of palliative care at the Ottawa Hospital and Bruyère Continuing Care in Ottawa, has used palliative sedation and said it is an important and useful option ...

Palliative sedation is considered to be an appropriate option when other treatments fail to relieve suffering in dying patients. 1, 2 There are important questions associated with this intervention, ...

Palliative sedation can be light or deep, and the intent is to relieve the patient of intractable suffering, not to end the patient’s life. Patients are not “deprived” of artificial nutrition to ...

Using palliative sedation to relieve existential suffering is less common in the United States than it is in other Western countries, according to Strouse and other American practitioners.

An alternative, when the usual palliative approaches fail, is palliative sedation, sometimes called terminal sedation (drug induced coma using doses which do not kill).

At-home palliative sedation for end-of-life cancer patients. Palliative Medicine, 2010; DOI: 10.1177/0269216309359996 ...

The imminent phase of death is also referred to in the literature as "last hours–last days." According to the literature, palliative sedation is mainly carried out in the last 2 to 3 days of life.

"Continuous deep sedation until death is considered the most far reaching and controversial type of palliative sedation," writes Dr. Siebe Swart, Department of Public Health, Rotterdam, The ...

These sometimes only implicit perceptions that palliative sedation could reach or even cross the line to the realm of medically, ethically, and legally unjustifiable actions may explain the effort ...

Palliative sedation is an end-of-life treatment that renders terminally-ill patients unconscious in the last stages of dying. It is used to alleviate excruciating pain, but some call it a form of ...