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The ethical and legal aspects of palliative sedation in severely brain-injured patients: a French perspective

To fulfill their crucial duty of relieving suffering in their patients, physicians may have to administer palliative sedation when they implement treatment-limitation decisions such as the withdrawal of life-supporting interventions in patients with poor prognosis chronic severe brain injury. The is...

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Autores principales: Baumann, Antoine, Claudot, Frédérique, Audibert, Gérard, Mertes, Paul-Michel, Puybasset, Louis
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3041748/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21303504
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-6-4