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Palliative Care - Navy Medicine

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Case 1 Response<br />

Appetite / hunger are lost close to death<br />

Risk of increasing pulmonary secretions or<br />

causing pulmonary edema<br />

No compelling evidence that dehydration<br />

or forgoing nutrition in the dying patient<br />

leads to significant suffering<br />

Quill, JAMA, 1997.

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