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Alexandra Guité-Verret1,2, Jessica Boivin2,3,4, Andrew M R Hanna5

  • 1Department of Psychology, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada.

BMC Palliative Care
|April 18, 2024

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Summary
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Palliative care clinicians navigate complex ethical challenges with continuous palliative sedation, adapting care to patient suffering and uncertainty. Their expertise and reflexivity are key to quality end-of-life care, even amidst evolving medical assistance in dying practices.

Keywords:
Assisted dyingContinuous palliative sedationDeep sedationEnd-of-life careEuthanasiaMedical assistance in dyingPalliative careQualitative

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  • Palliative Care Medicine
  • Medical Ethics
  • Qualitative Research

Background:

  • Continuous palliative sedation until death is debated, with literature showing inconsistencies in definition and indications.
  • Ethical and medical complexities surround end-of-life sedation practices.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore palliative care clinicians' experiences with continuous palliative sedation.
  • To understand the nuances of providing sedation in diverse Canadian healthcare settings.

Main Methods:

  • Qualitative study utilizing focus group discussions.
  • Six focus groups conducted with 28 palliative care clinicians (nurses, physicians, end-of-life doula).
  • Interpretative phenomenological analysis applied to qualitative data.

Main Results:

  • Six key themes emerged: responding to suffering, managing uncertainty, adapting care for quality, ethical grounding, integrating expertise with tact and reflexivity, and offering alternatives to assisted dying.
  • Clinicians identified factors influencing sedation quality, including family interaction, prognosis uncertainty, and assisted dying availability.
  • Themes highlight the need for clear palliative care guidelines.

Conclusions:

  • Palliative care clinicians face challenges due to family dynamics, prognostic uncertainty, and the presence of assisted dying legislation.
  • Existential suffering significantly impacts sedation quality and highlights a need for updated guidelines.
  • Despite challenges, clinicians demonstrate adaptability and reflective capacity crucial for effective palliative sedation.