Posted 12/21/2009
Terminal Sedation as Part of End-of-Life Care
New York Times: “Hard Choices for a Comfortable Death: Drug-Induced Sleep”
By Sara Myers
Seems that while I have been spending most of my waking hours thinking about care models for frail old people, a new and somewhat disturbing practice has been in play at hospice centers around the world. Terminal sedation or palliative sedation are terms used to describe the intravenous administration of powerful sedative drugs intended to keep dying, suffering patients under deep sedation, until death, while withholding artificial nutrition or hydration. Read More >>
