The ethical and clinical importance of measuring consciousness in continuously sedated patients Ghent University
Continuous sedation at the end-of-life is a practice that has attracted much attention. An increasing number of guidelines on the proposed correct performance of the practice have been drafted. All guidelines stress the importance of using sedation proportionally to the severity of the symptoms the patient is suffering from, and thus to reduce the patient’s consciousness no more than is absolutely necessary. As different patients can have ...