SED by AD: Prepare to Respect Patient Wishes

We commend AMDA for “retiring” its 2019 Statement on Stopping Eating and Drinking by Advance Directives “as the official policy of AMDA.”1 Removing this categorical prohibition on requests for Stopping Eating and Drinking by Advance Directive (SED by AD) permits practitioners to consider and evaluate each request for SED by AD under the situational circumstances of each individual case.