Glossary: Integrative End-of-Life Care
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Terminal (or Palliative) Sedation
Generally practiced during the final days or hours of a dying patient’s life, this coma-like state is medically induced through medication when symptoms such as pain, nausea, breathlessness, or delirium cannot be controlled while the patient is conscious. Patients generally die from the sedation’s secondary effects of dehydration or other intervening complications (Deathwithdignity, 2024).
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