Palliative sedation: why we should be more concerned about the risks that patients experience an uncomfortable death.

Please cite this article in press as: Deschepper R et al. Palliative sedation: Why we should be more concerned about the risks that patients experie uncomfortable death. PAIN (2013), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pain.2013.04.038 Reginald Deschepper a,⇑, Steven Laureys , Said Hachimi Idrissi , Jan Poelaert , Johan Bilsen a Department of Public Health, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel 1090, Belgium Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Centre and Neurology Department, University and University Hospital of Liège, Liège 4000, Belgium Cerebral Resuscitation Research Group and the Centre of Neuroscience, Gent 9000, Belgium Department of Anesthesiology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel 1090, Belgium