Palliative sedation is a medical practice used to relieve intractable suffering in patients with terminal illnesses. It involves the administration of sedative medications to reduce consciousness ...
Purpose. The development of a policy, evidence-based standard orders, and monitoring for palliative sedation therapy (PST) is described. Summary. Concerns regarding PST at the University of ...
Medscape Medical News, November 01, 2022 What Is Palliative Sedation, and How Is It Administered? Unlike medically assisted death, palliative sedation aims to reduce the perception of an otherwise ...
The Netherlands' government specifies that "palliative sedation" is not a form of euthanasia. Instead, the patient is "rendered unconscious with pain-reducing drugs and eventually dies from ...