Purpose: To describe the suggested clinical practice of palliative sedation as it is presented
in the literature and discuss available guidelines for its use. Methods: CINAHL, PubMed, and …

Palliative sedation is an effective symptom control strategy for patients who suffer from
intractable symptoms at the end of life. Evidence suggests that the use of this practice varies …

Background: Palliative sedation therapy (PST) is increasingly used in end-of-life care.
However, consensus about definitions, indications, and treatment decision making is …

Background: Canada does not have a standardized ethical and practice framework for
continuous palliative sedation therapy (CPST). Although a number of institutional and …

Addresses the concerns and controversies of using palliative sedation as a complex
intervention intended to provide comfort to patients who are actively dying and experiencing …

Many patients nearing the end of life reach a point at which the goals of care change from an
emphasis on prolonging life and optimizing function to maximizing the quality of remaining …

Palliative sedation (PS) is the use of medications to reduce consciousness for the relief of
intolerable and refractory symptoms, in patients with limited life expectancy. The ethical …

The overall aim of this paper is to systematically review the following important aspects of
palliative sedation: prevalence, indications, survival, medication, food and fluid intake …

The European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) considers sedation to be an important
and necessary therapy in the care of selected palliative care patients with otherwise …

Objectives Palliative sedation is a highly debated medical practice, particularly regarding its
proper use in end-of-life care. Worldwide, guidelines are used to standardise care and …