Palliative sedation at the end of life: prevalence, characteristics and possible determinants
Maria Isabel Carrasco-Zafra, Ricardo Ocaña-Riola, Rafael Gómez-García, Maria Luisa Martín-Roselló, Encarnación Blanco-Reina · 2024
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Description
Maria Isabel Carrasco-Zafra and four co-authors study sedation care at the end of life in 2024. When symptoms cannot be eased any other way, care teams may sedate a dying patient. How often this happens, and for whom, varies by place and was little mapped in their setting.
The team reviewed 533 patients who died in a specialist palliative unit. Sedation was used for 16.7 percent of them, most often for delirium, pain, or breathlessness that would not ease. Patients already on strong pain drugs had higher odds of sedation. The authors also record consent, drugs used, depth, and place of death, to guide early spotting of need.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Maria Isabel Carrasco-Zafra, Ricardo Ocaña-Riola, Rafael Gómez-García, Maria Luisa Martín-Roselló, Encarnación Blanco-Reina |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |