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PDFCurrent controversy
Preventing arrests in the intensive care unit
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Competing interests None.
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Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.
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↵i In 2008, the American Medical Association Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs approved an ethical policy regarding the practice of palliative sedation.
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