1. Palliative Sedation in Patients Hospitalized in Internal Medicine Departments
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Jesús Díez-Manglano, Soledad Isasi de Isasmendi Pérez, Rosa García Fenoll, Luis Ángel Sánchez, Françesc Formiga, Vicente Giner Galvañ, Carlos Dueñas, Bernardino Roca, Cristina Estrada Díaz, Emilio Casariego Vales, Marta Rubio Gómez, Magdalena Martín Pérez, Luis Felipe Díez García, Ignacio Vallejo Maroto, Cristina Ocaña Losada, Susana Moya Roldán, Catalina Díaz Pérez, Javier Caballero Granado, Resfa María García Font, Francisco J. Jódar Lorente, Gloria Pérez Vázquez, Ana belén Ferro Expósito, María Luisa Amaya González, Fernando Gamboa Antiñolo, Álvaro González Molina, Mercedes Gómez Hernández, Marcos Guzmán García, Lola Benítez León, Lorena Montero Rivas, María Ruiz Mariscal, Noelia Gómez Aguirre, María Pilar González García, Isabel Martín Algora, María Carmen Bueno Castel, Fernando Ruiz Laiglesia, Esperanza Bejarano Tello, José Luis Cabrerizo García, Nuria Guiral Fernández, Luis Camera, Carla Gauna, Pedro Abad Requejo, Rocío Martínez Gutiérrez, Rebeca Fernández Regueiro, María Teresa Sánchez Vidal, Joaquín Alfonso Mejido, Enrique García Carús, Carmen Elena Calvo Rodríguez, Paula Martínez García, Sixto Ruiz Olivares, María Isabel Fullana Barcelo, Carmen González Arencibia, Rosa Ros Vilamajó, María José Monedero Prieto, Concepción González Becerra, Sofía Pérez, Andrea Martín Plata, Raquel Portilla Chocarro, Carlos Dueñas Gutiérrez, Francisco Estrada Álvarez, Sonia Peña Balbuena, Raúl Rodríguez Galindo, Marta María Cobos Siles, Luis Ángel Sánchez Muñoz, Ana Castañón López, Celia Sanz Lobo, María Montserrat Chimeno Viñas, María Ángeles Contreras Uriel, Judit Gil Domínguez, Francisco Medrano González, José Manuel Machín Lázaro, Jeffrey Magallanes Gamboa, Mónica Rodríguez Galdeano, Joaquín Castro Giménez, José Ramón Barberá Farré, Raquel Núñez Aragón, Ferrán Masanés Torán, José Barbé, Elena Güell Farré, Olga Torres Bonafonte, Ana lozano Miñana, Desirée Moras Sarabia, Rosa Pérez, Dolors Arnau i Fernández, Francesc Formiga, Javier Fernández Fernández, Antoni Castro Salomó, Rami Qanneta, María Victoria Pardo Ortega, Yasmina Monterroso Pintado, Montserrat García Cors, María Cruz Almendros Rivas, Dolors Domingo Albin, Jaume Roig Morera, Nuria Galofré Álvaro, Aythami Toro Parodi, Mario Loureiro Sánchez, Carla de la Guerra Acebal, Javier Zubizarreta García, Iasone Benavente Claveras, Juan Martí Cabanes, Ignacio Sanz Lázaro, José Barquero Romero, Leticia Nevado López-Alegría, José Carlos Arévalo Lorido, Ana María Lorenzo Vizcaya, Cristina Macía Rodríguez, Silvia Pérez Fernández, Pascual Sesma Sánchez, María Dolores Jiménez-Beatty, Laura González Vázquez, Ángel Brea Hernando, Jesús Castiella Herrero, María Isabel González Anglada, Virginia M. Gracia Lorenzo, Alejandro Pérez Martín, Gerardo García Melcón, María Gómez Antúnez, María Angustias Quesada Simón, Fuensanta Gil Gil, María Asenjo Martínez, Lourdes Mancebo Aragoneses, Jorge Calderón Parra, María del Carmen Romero Pérez, José Curbelo García, Fernando Laguna Cuesta, María Eugenia Segovia Abad, María Fontecha Ortega, Guillermina Lara Martínez, Ana Pinos Blanco, Raquel Rodil Fraile, Elisabel Martínez Litago, Aitziber Echeverría Echeverría, Manuel Priego Valladares, Carlos Trescoli Serrano, Josep Vicente Mas, Óscar Torregrosa Suau, Eva Gil Tomás, Rafael Castillo Rubio, José Manuel Murcia Zaragoza, Pilar Román Sánchez, Ana García Herola, Pedro Pablo Tenllado Doblas, Julio César Blázquez Encinar, Enrique Castellano Vela, Néstor Carrizo, Bernardino Manuel Roca Villanueva, Francisco Pasquau Liaño, and José María Pascual Izuel
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Clinical audit ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Palliative care ,Argentina ,Context (language use) ,Palliative sedation ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Neoplasms ,Internal medicine ,Terminal care ,Humans ,Hypnotics and Sedatives ,Medicine ,In patient ,030212 general & internal medicine ,General Nursing ,Retrospective Studies ,Terminal Care ,business.industry ,Palliative Care ,Odds ratio ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine ,Spain ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Observational study ,Neurology (clinical) ,business - Abstract
Palliative sedation is used to relieve end-of-life refractory symptoms.The objective of this study was to describe the use of palliative sedation in patients who die in internal medicine departments.An observational, cross-sectional, retrospective, and multicenter clinical audit study was conducted in 145 hospitals in Spain and Argentina. Each hospital included the first 10 patients who died in the internal medicine department, starting on December 1, 2015.We included 1447 patients, and palliative sedation was administered to 701 patients (48.4%). Having a terminal illness (odds ratio [OR] 2.469, 95% CI 1.971-3.093, P 0.001) and the length of hospital stay (OR 1.011, 95% CI 1.002-1.021, P = 0.017) were independently associated with the use of palliative sedation. Consent was granted by the families of 582 (83%) patients. The most common refractory symptom was dyspnea, and the most commonly used drugs for sedation were midazolam (77%) and morphine (89.7%). An induction dose was administered in 25.7% of the patients. Rescue doses were scheduled for 70% of the patients, and hydration was maintained in 49.5%. Pain was more common in patients with cancer, whereas dyspnea was more common in those without cancer. Rescue doses were used more often for the patients with cancer (77.8% vs. 67.7%, P = 0.015). Monitoring the palliative sedation with a scale was more frequent in the patients with cancer (23.7% vs. 14.3%, P = 0.008).Palliative sedation is used more often for terminal patients. There are differences in the administration of palliative sedation between patients with and without cancer.
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- 2020
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