Purpose: Palliative sedation therapy (PST) is a controversial issue. There is a need for
internationally accepted definitions and standards. Methods: A systematic review of the …

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

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 …

Palliative care aims to prevent and relieve suffering by controlling symptoms and to provide
other support to patients and families in order to maintain and improve their quality of living …

In patients with advanced cancer, a readiness to address pain and other intolerable
symptoms is a medical and moral imperative [1]. This has been described by Roy as the …

Despite skilled palliative care, some dying patients experience distressing symptoms that
cannot be adequately relieved. A patient with metastatic breast cancer, receiving high doses …

Background: Although palliative sedation therapy is often used in palliative care settings, no
clinical guideline is available. Objective: To construct a clinical guideline for palliative …

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 …

Context Palliative sedation therapy (PST) is increasingly used in patients at the end of life.
However, consensus about medications and monitoring is lacking. Objectives To assess …

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