Palliative Sedierung und ihre ethischen Implikationen

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• 作者：PD Dr. med. Bernd Alt-Epping ; Eva Schildmann ; Dietmar Weixler
• 关键词：SchlüsselwörterBewusstlosigkeit ; Symptomkontrolle ; Unerträgliches Leid ; Tiefe kontinuierliche Sedierung ; Euthanasie
• 刊名：Der Onkologe
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：22
• 期：11
• 页码：852-859
• 全文大小：478 KB
• 刊物类别：Medicine
• 刊物主题：Medicine & Public Health
  Oncology
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1433-0415
• 卷排序：22

文摘

Therapeutic (or palliative) sedation in the context of palliative medicine is the monitored use of medications intended to induce a state of decreased or absent awareness (unconsciousness) in order to relieve the burden of otherwise intractable suffering in a manner that is ethically acceptable to the patient, family and health-care providers. ‘Ethical acceptability’ of palliative sedation therapy depends on its clinical standards and organizational framework. For example in Belgium or in the Netherlands, certain types of palliative sedation have been used with the intention to hasten death, and palliative sedation is partly discussed in the context of euthanasia.