Food and fluids in dying patients: some thoughts after the death of a patient

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Food and fluids in dying patients: some thoughts after the death of a patient

Published in: South African Family Practice
Volume 46 , issue 4 , 2004 , pages: 6–7
DOI: 10.1080/20786204.2004.10873064
Author(s): D Cameron Department of Family Medicine,
Keywords: Dying , terminal care , palliative medicine
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Abstract

Death is inevitable but modern medicine has the skill and the facilities to delay its arrival. A case is made out for a radical rethink of the approach to the use of fluids and food in the terminal dying patient in hospital.
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