Interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of Religion and World View, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
Nurs Ethics. 2012 Sep;19(5):692-704. doi: 10.1177/0969733011436026.
Palliative sedation is an option of last resort to control refractory suffering. In order to better understand palliative-care nurses' attitudes to palliative sedation, an anonymous questionnaire was sent to all nurses (589) employed in palliative care in Flanders (Belgium). In all, 70.5% of the nurses (n = 415) responded. A large majority did not agree that euthanasia is preferable to palliative sedation, were against non-voluntary euthanasia in the case of a deeply and continuously sedated patient and considered it generally better not to administer artificial floods or fluids to such a patient. Two clusters were found: 58.5% belonged to the cluster of advocates of deep and continuous sedation and 41.5% belonged to the cluster of nurses restricting the application of deep and continuous sedation. These differences notwithstanding, overall the attitudes of the nurses are in accordance with the practice and policy of palliative sedation in Flemish palliative-care units.
姑息镇静治疗是控制难治性痛苦的最后手段。为了更好地了解姑息护理护士对姑息镇静治疗的态度，我们向在佛兰德斯（比利时）从事姑息护理的所有护士（589 名）发送了匿名问卷。共有 70.5%的护士（n=415）做出了回应。绝大多数护士不同意安乐死优于姑息镇静治疗，反对在深度持续镇静患者的情况下进行非自愿安乐死，并认为一般最好不要给这样的患者进行人工补液。发现了两个聚类：58.5%的护士属于深度持续镇静的支持者聚类，41.5%的护士属于限制深度持续镇静应用的护士聚类。尽管存在这些差异，但总体而言，护士的态度符合佛兰德斯姑息护理单位姑息镇静治疗的实践和政策。
