Recent news stories relating to the "end of life" have brought public attention to palliative sedation (PS), a therapeutic procedure about which unfortunately little is known in the healthcare world ...

Palliative care workers are allowed to sedate some patients with intractable pain at the end of life–but only as a last-resort measure, according to a new ethical guideline approved by the American ...

The assisted suicide movement is ever about blurring vital distinctions and deconstructing crucial definitions. One target has been the proper pain control technique known as palliative sedation, a ...

Patient-Reported Outcomes After Hepatic Resection of Colorectal Cancer Metastases Palliative sedation is a clinical procedure aimed at relieving refractory symptoms in patients with advanced cancer.

July 7, 2009 – Palliative sedation therapy used for the control of refractory symptoms in cancer patients with very advanced disease does not hasten death, a new prospective study concludes. The study ...

The assisted suicide movement has done much to sow fear and confusion about palliative sedation, sometimes referring to this proper palliative practice as “terminal sedation,” as if the intent is to ...

Physicians take two types of approaches to palliative sedation, either mild sedation or deep sedation from the start, and it is important to understand the reasons behind each approach, states an ...

Toward the end, the pain had practically driven Elizabeth Martin mad. By then, the cancer had spread everywhere, from her colon to her spine, her liver, her adrenal glands and one of her lungs.

In the contentious debate over whether people have a right to die, the staunchest opponents on either side could usually agree on one point — that the terminally ill ought to be made as comfortable as ...

Re “Hard Choice for a Comfortable Death: Drug-Induced Sleep” (“Months to Live” series, front page, Dec. 27): Bravo to The New York Times for its in-depth reporting on palliative sedation. When death ...

Patients with advanced cancer develop a number of devastating physical and psychosocial symptoms. 1 Although in the last 15 years there has been considerable improvement in our ability to assess and ...