Palliative sedation and mortality in emergency departments: descriptive study of cases in the MORCAT registry.

Objectives: To describe the clinical management of palliative sedation and the characteristics of sedated patients in 11 Catalan hospital emergency departments.

Material And Methods: Prospective descriptive study of a cohort of patients given palliative sedation between April and July 2018. We registered patient demographic and disease data, the Charlson comorbidity index (CCI), patient's point of origin before emergency department arrival, times related to emergency care, and medications used.