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Bernard et al . [ 10 ] reported that, in patients with sepsis, treatment with ibuprofen reduced levels of prostacylin and thromboxane and decreased fever, tachycardia, oxygen consumption, and lactic acidosis, but did not prevent the development of shock or acute respiratory distress syndrome, and did not improve survival.
Asked if he regretted the personal distress suffered by Lewinsky, Starr replied: "She--as an obviously highly intelligent young adult, a professional, a college graduate--made a most unfortunate judgment, and that was that she would commit federal crimes in order to obstruct the judicial process in the form of a sexual harassment action [the Paula Jones case].
The patients with asthma who reported improvement stated that the frequency and intensity of their respiratory distress episodes had improved with use of hypnosis.
The problems associated with sedation in end-of-life care and the different attitudes among clinicians and palliative care experts are reflected in inconsistent terminology [ 5 ] , variation in techniques used to induce, maintain and monitor sedation [ 6 ] , duration of and frequency of application, different concepts on the time of administering sedation and on intentions [ 7 ] . While the ambiguous term "terminal sedation (TS)" [ 8 9 ] is used most often, other terms more clearly reflect the different viewpoints: "sedation for intractable distress in the imminently dying [ 10 11 ] ;", end-of-life sedation [ 12 ] "slow-euthanasia" [ 13 ] , "palliative sedation" [ 14 ] , "total sedation" [ 15 ] , "sedation in the final phase", "palliative sedation therapy" [ 16 ] .
The increasing incidence and also the finding that sedation was more often used in situations with psychological distress and also requested by the patients' themselves may indicate an increasing awareness and respect for the needs of the patients.
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