[Palliative sedation in pediatric oncology]. / Palliative Sedierungstherapie in der Pädiatrie.

Severe pain caused by multiple metastases in bones in a pediatric patient suffering from rhabdomyosarcoma, a solid tumor of childhood, made palliative sedation therapy after developing metastases in lung necessary. The premises for this therapy, the difference in the choice of drugs compared to adults and psychology of the dying child are discussed.