A national guideline for palliative sedation in the Netherlands
The first national guideline on palliative sedation in The Netherlands has been adopted by the General Board of the Royal Dutch Medical Association. By law, the physician is obliged to take this guideline into consideration. In this paper, we present the main principles of the guideline. Palliative sedation is defined as the intentional lowering of consciousness of a patient in the last phase of his or her life. The aim of palliative sedation is to relieve suffering, and lowering consciousness is a means to achieve this. The indication for palliative sedation is the presence of one or more ref... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2007 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Verkerk , M , van Wijlick , E , Legemaate , J & de Graeff , A 2007 , ' A national guideline for palliative sedation in the Netherlands ' , Journal of Pain and Symptom Management , vol. 34 , no. 6 , pp. 666-670 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2007.01.005 |
Schlagwörter: | palliative sedation / guideline / TERMINAL SEDATION / SLOW EUTHANASIA / INTRACTABLE DISTRESS / DEFINITIONS / LIFE |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29191816 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://hdl.handle.net/11370/9fbc89fe-8b7e-4d99-b5bc-72687016aafa |