Sentences with phrase «palliative sedation»

Carter acknowledged society's changed opinions around palliative sedation and withholding life - sustaining treatment, now widely viewed as ethical and humane in the right circumstances.

Before giving consent to terminal palliative sedation, a patient who wishes to receive such sedation or, where applicable, the individual authorized to consent to care on behalf of the patient, must among other things be informed of the prognosis, the irreversible and terminal nature of the sedation and the anticipated duration of the sedation.

End - of - life treatment includes terminal palliative sedation, which places patients in a state of unconsciousness and where they are deprived of food and water, and would require written consent beforehand in writing and filed in the patient's record.

Death often occurs within days of terminal palliative sedation but can sometimes take longer.

Interestingly, in June 2014, prior to Carter, Quebec had adopted legislation permitting a terminally ill patient of sound mind to request and receive continuous palliative sedation leading to death.

(The bill ultimately passed without these objectionable provisions and without the improper definition of palliative sedation.)

The report must state the number of end - of - life patients who received palliative care, the number of terminal palliative sedations administered, the number of requests for medical aid in dying, the number of times such aid was administered and the number of times such requests were refused, including the reasons for the refusals.

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It include issues such as resuscitation, refusal and withdrawal of treatment, living wills, palliative care, sedation, religious beliefs and more.

In June 1995, the committee released its report, Of Life and Death, which also canvassed a number of related issues including palliative care, pain control and sedation practices, withholding and withdrawal of life - sustaining treatment, and advance directives.