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Palliative sedation is a unique concern for the patient as well as the family.
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Palliative sedation is a unique concern for the patient as well as the family. It is a difficult serious ethical dilemma for the physicians to handle. The conflicting ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence in continuing versus discontinuing all supportive devices raise concerns among health professionals whether this is euthanasia (physician-assisted suicide) or is just prolonging the patient's unnecessary suffering.
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This page is a summary of: Palliative sedation and ethical dilemma, Journal of Health Specialties, January 2018, Medknow,
DOI: 10.4103/jhs.jhs_21_18.
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