Review of European Guidelines on Palliative Sedation: A Foundation for the Updating of the European Association for Palliative Care Framework

• Published in: Journal of palliative medicine Vol. 25; no. 11; p. 1721
• Main Authors: Surges, Séverine M, Garralda, Eduardo, Jaspers, Birgit, Brunsch, Holger, Rijpstra, Maaike, Hasselaar, Jeroen, Van der Elst, Michaël, Menten, Johan, Csikós, Ágnes, Mercadante, Sebastiano, Mosoiu, Daniela, Payne, Sheila, Centeno, Carlos, Radbruch, Lukas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.11.2022
• Subjects: Consensus; Existentialism; Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing; Humans; Hypnotics and Sedatives; Palliative Care - psychology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Terminal Care - methods; clinical practice guidelines; palliative care; sedation; Europe; refractory symptom; end-of-life care

In 2009, the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) developed a framework on palliative sedation, acknowledging this practice as an important and ethically acceptable intervention of last resort for terminally ill patients experiencing refractory symptoms. Before and after that, other guide...