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In medicine, specifically in end-of-life care, palliative sedation (also known as terminal sedation, continuous deep sedation, or sedation for intractable distress of a dying patient) is the palliative practice of relieving distress in a terminally ill person in the last hours or days of a dying person's life, usually by means of a continuous intravenous or subcutaneous infusion of a sedative ...
Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute. Liverpool. Archived from the original on 21 November 2012. "Pocket Guide to the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient" (PDF). Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute. Liverpool. April 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 March 2013. "LCP information leaflet for relatives and carers" (PDF).
The protocol, drawn up after extensive consultation between physicians, lawyers, parents and the Prosecution Office, offers procedures and guidelines to achieve the correct decision and performance. The final decision about "active ending of life on infants" is not in the hands of the physicians but with the parents, with physicians and social ...
POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) is an approach to improving end-of-life care in the United States, encouraging providers to speak with the severely ill and create specific medical orders to be honored by health care workers during a medical crisis. [1]
The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care is the major professional organization devoted to the global spread of hospice and palliative medicine. The American Board of Internal Medicine administers the initial board certification exam for allopathic physicians seeking certification in hospice and palliative medicine.
With ODEH, the sedation part of the MAiD procedure is initiated at the patient's home after final farewells with the family, so the patient does not experience anything further. The patient is then transported to a hospital for several hours, during which time death and organ donation take place, with their body then being returned home for the ...
For example, in a discussion of euthanasia presented in 2003 by the European Association of Palliative Care (EPAC) Ethics Task Force, the authors offered: "Medicalized killing of a person without the person's consent, whether nonvoluntary (where the person is unable to consent) or involuntary (against the person's will), is not euthanasia: it ...
The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) is a professional organization for physicians specializing in Hospice and Palliative Medicine, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Membership is open to all health care providers committed to improving the care of patients with serious or life-threatening illnesses.