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. 2012 Oct;15(10):1082–1090. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2011.0500

Table 1.

Demographics of Three Pediatric Patients Receiving Palliative Sedation Therapy with Propofol

  Patient 1 Patient 2 Patient 3
Age at diagnosis 9 years 6 years 11 years
Age at death 9 years 6 years 15 years
Sex M M M
Weight (kg) 34.5 24.3 64
Initial oncology diagnosis Angiosarcoma Neuroblastoma Acute lymphoblastic leukemia
Secondary diagnoses and complications Lumbar and leg pain HTN, PRES, GNS bacteremia, disseminated Candida tropicalis infection, severe abdominal pain Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, GVHD, MDR bacteremia, Alcaligenes xylosoxidans sepsis, possible Guillain-Barré syndrome, presumed pain

HTN, hypertension; PRES, posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome; GNS, gram-negative Staphylococcus; GVHD, graft-versus-host disease, MDR: multiple drug resistant.