Ethical issues in pain and palliation.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of review

Increased public awareness of ethical issues in pain and palliative care, along with patient advocacy groups, put pressure on healthcare systems and professionals to address these concerns.Our aim is to review the ethics dilemmas concerning palliative care in ICU, artificial intelligence applications in pain therapy and palliative care, and the opioids epidemics.

Recent findings

In this focus review, we highlighted state of the art papers that were published in the last 18 months, on ethical issues in palliative care within the ICU, artificial intelligence trajectories, and how opioids epidemics has impacted pain management practices (see Visual Abstract).

Summary

Palliative care in the ICU should involve a multidisciplinary team, to mitigate patient

SUBMITTER: Cascella M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10911254 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature