Continuous sedation at the end of life : ethical, clinical and legal perspectives /

Continuous sedation until death (sometimes referred to as terminal sedation or palliative sedation) is an increasingly common practice in end-of-life care. However, it raises numerous medical, ethical, emotional and legal concerns, such as the reducing or removing of consciousness (and thus potentia...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sterckx, Sigrid (Editor ), Raus, Kasper (Editor ), Mortier, Freddy (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Colección:Cambridge bioethics and law.
Temas:
Terminal sedation.
Terminal care > Law and legislation.
Terminally ill > Psychology.
Hospice care.
Terminal care.
Terminal Care
Terminal Care > ethics
Terminal Care > legislation & jurisprudence
Deep Sedation > ethics
Deep Sedation > legislation & jurisprudence
Hospice Care
Sédation en phase terminale.
Malades en phase terminale > Psychologie.
Soins en phase terminale.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Terminal care
Hospice care
Terminal care > Law and legislation
Terminal sedation
Terminally ill > Psychology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Freddy Mortier
  • 2. Continuous sedation until death: state of the art / Agnes Van Der Heide
  • 3. Death by equivocation: a manifold definition of terminal sedation / David Albert Jones
  • 4. Palliative sedation: clinical, pharmacological and practical aspects / Josep Porta-Sales
  • 5. Clinical aspects of palliative sedation / Nigel P. Sykes
  • 6. Understanding the role of nurses in the management of symptoms and distress in the last days of life / Jane Seymour
  • 7. Principle and practice for palliative sedation: gaps between the two / David Orentlicher
  • 8. The legal permissibility of continuous deep sedation at the end of life: a comparison of laws and a proposal / Evelien Delbeke
  • 9. The Dutch national guideline on palliative sedation / Johan Legemaate
  • 10. Continuous deep sedation at the end of life: balancing benefits and harms in England, Germany and France / Ruth Horn
  • 11. Can the doctrine of double effect justify continuous deep sedation at the end of life? / Freddy Mortier
  • 12. Palliative sedation, consciousness and personhood / Timothy E. Quill
  • 13. The ethical evaluation of continuous sedation at the end of life / Johannes J.M. Van Delden
  • 14. Terminal sedation and euthanasia: the virtue in calling a spade what it is / Søren Holm
  • 15. Terminal sedation: recasting a metaphor as the ars moriendi changes / Margaret P. Battin.

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