[Palliative Sedation for Psycho-existential Suffering]

Overview

Journal Wien Med Wochenschr

Specialty General Medicine

Date 2013 Oct 26

PMID 24158418

Authors

Eva Weichselbaumer

Dietmar Weixler

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Abstract

Sedation in palliative care is generally considered as an important therapy in terminally ill patients with refractory symptoms. However the sedation of patients with intractable psycho-existential suffering is still under discussion. This paper discusses the case of a 56-year-old patient in the final phase of carcinoma of the ovaries, who required palliative sedation for refractory, mainly psycho-existential suffering. It describes the course on our ward and the difficult process of decision-making. We discuss our approach based on literature.

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