Persona y Bioética 21 (2) (2017)
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Respect for human life is central to medicine. In terminal patients, refractory symptoms are a niche of palliative sedation. This paper identi es, based on scienti c evidence, the survival in patients who received palliative sedation as compared to those who didn’t. We conducted a search for systematic reviews from 2000 to 2016, which were methodologically analyzed, and the results were then compared. For methodological reasons, meta-analysis could not be performed. It is concluded that terminal palliative sedation does not shorten patients’ lives. The implementation of the principle of double effect related to the possible shortening of life was reformulated; the unwanted evil is the loss of consciousness.
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| Keywords | Eutanásia Pacientes terminales Terminal patients calidad de vida eutanasia euthanasia pacientes terminais palliative sedation qualidade de vida quality of life refractory symptoms sedación paliativa sedação paliativa sintomas refratários síntomas refractarios |
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