Could palliative sedation be seen as unnamed euthanasia?: a survey among healthcare professionals in oncology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In 2016 a French law created a new right for end-of-life patients: deep and continuous sedation maintained until death, with discontinuation of all treatments sustaining life such as artificial nutrition and hydration. It was totally unprecedented that nutrition and hydration were explicitly defined in France as sustaining life treatments, and remains a specificity of this law. End- of-life practices raise ethical and practical issues, especially in Europe actually. We aimed to know how oncology professionals deal with the law, their opinion and experience and their perception.

Methods

Online mono-centric survey with closed-ended and open-ended questions in a Cancer Comprehensive Centre was elaborated. It was built during workshops of the ethics committee of the I

SUBMITTER: Lucchi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10354970 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature