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http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme-2025-111284 | DOI Listing |
J Med Ethics
September 2025
Philosophy & Religious Studies, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee, USA
J Med Ethics
August 2025
Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Med Ethics
July 2025
Graduate School of Urban Social and Cultural Studies, Yokohama City University, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
The ethics of palliative sedation has been debated intensely. Recently, it has been emphasised that many drugs with sedating effects are also effective in reducing specific symptoms like pain and seizures. For example, midazolam is commonly used to sedate terminally ill patients but it can also reduce seizures.
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March 2025
Section of Neurocritical Care, Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments in the intensive care unit most often culminates into the discontinuation of mechanical ventilation and removal of the endotracheal tube or "terminal extubation." Standards of practice call for the appropriate use of analgesia and sedation before, during and after extubation with an explicit goal to relieve suffering but not to hasten death. Patients subjected to this procedure are exposed to variable pharmacologic agents, modes, and doses, without any knowledge or monitoring of what these patients are experiencing.
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January 2025
Department of clinical hematology and cellular therapy, Hôpital Saint Antoine, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France.
Introduction: Haematology is a speciality frequently confronted with end-of-life situations, and teams will be concerned by the question of medical assistance in dying. The Ethics Commission of the French Society of Haematology has conducted a survey on the knowledge and perceptions of healthcare professionals regarding complex end-of-life situations.
Methods: A cross-sectionalonline survey of hematology professionals in France.