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anti-anxiety medication is palliative care for corona-virus


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Per this article,

https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/14/coronavirus-why-everyone-needs-to-talk-about-advanced-directives/

 

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This could mean a COVID-19 patient is left with a difficult decision: Would you prefer palliative care or life-support? Palliative care for coronavirus typically involves an oxygen mask, morphine and anti-anxiety medication to ease breathing.

 

Life support, on the other hand, can include a feeding tube, dialysis, transfusions and mechanical ventilation, a grueling experience that requires heavy sedation."

 

All options seems pretty bad. I wonder how one can say no to anti-anxiety medication (which I believe in benzos only)

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If you're on palliative care, a benzo is the least of your problems - you're dying.

 

I'm not endorsing benzos at all...just putting it in perspective:)

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