Palliative sedation therapy

This guidance will help you support the patient, their family and carer to make decisions about care in the last days of life.

It details documentation, patient and family needs and clinical considerations through the important steps involved in palliative sedation therapy, including:

• planning and assessment for palliative sedation therapy
• at time of palliative sedation therapy
• during sedation and after death.

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This guidance adapts the Australia New Zealand Association of Palliative Medicine (ANZPM) palliative sedation therapy guidance for the Victorian context. This work was commissioned by the Department of Health and Human Services, and undertaken by the Palliative Care Clinical Network.