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Clinical Aspects of Palliative Sedation for Refractory Symptoms

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[The patient stated], ‘Let me up, get out of my way, I’m leaving. Get your hands off of me.’ Delirium had settled in with a vengeance now, and I wondered if it was the underlying disease, an infection, or an assemblage of causes that tangled his synapses and made us the enemy.

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    Paul W. Walker

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Walker, P.W. (2015). Clinical Aspects of Palliative Sedation for Refractory Symptoms. In: Taboada, P. (eds) Sedation at the End-of-life: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Philosophy and Medicine(), vol 116. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9106-9_3

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