Editorial

Abstract

Lorazepam, Midazolam, to faint, to die

In order to illustrate the importance - for the patient, family and doctors – of the Brazilian Federal Council of Medicine (CFM) resolutions that deal with end of life, we report a clinic case that ended in death. This is about a 83 years old woman that was admitted for complementary examination, but, due to a series of complications arising from the procedure, needed to be transferred to the ICU where she stayed for 19 days, and needed a colostomy and tracheostomy, had to be ventilated and intubated, and because of the worsening of her condition, received indication to undergo hemodialysis.