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General anaesthesia in end-of-life care: extending the indications for anaesthesia beyond surgery
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Some refractory symptoms at the end of life (pain, delirium, distress, dyspnoea) might be managed by analgesia, but in high doses, side-effects (e.g., respiratory depression) can hasten death. Sedation may be needed for agitation or distress, and can be administered as continuous deep sedation (CDS; also referred to as terminal or palliative sedation) generally using benzodiazepines. However, for some patients these interventions are not enough, and others may express a clear desire to be com...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1111/anae.15459
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- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Anaesthesia Journal website
- Volume:
- 76
- Issue:
- 10
- Pages:
- 1308-1315
- Publication date:
- 2021-04-20
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-02-16
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1365-2044
- ISSN:
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0003-2409
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1163511
- Local pid:
- pubs:1163511
- Deposit date:
- 2021-02-25
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- Copyright holder:
- Takla et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © 2021 The Authors. Anaesthesia published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Association of Anaesthetists. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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