The ethical validity and clinical experience of palliative sedation

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The physician's main goal in caring for a dying person is to reduce suffering, including pain, physical symptoms, and emotional, psychosocial, and spiritual distress. In refractory and intractable cases, palliative sedation offers a compassionate and humane alternative to conscious and continual suffering, both for the patient and the patient's family. Without a doubt, further studies are necessary, particularly in cases of cognitive impairment, but palliative gedation offers a valuable and efficacious intervention for interminable suffering at the end of life.

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Paul Rousseau, M. D. (2000). The ethical validity and clinical experience of palliative sedation. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. Elsevier Ltd. https://doi.org/10.4065/75.10.1064

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