Palliative care refers to for those patients who are hopeless or unable to receive curative treatment to take full active medical treatment and care, to control pain and related symptoms, and are paid attention to psychological, social and spiritual problems. Its purpose is for patients and their families to win the best quality of life. Palliative care is also applicable to early-stage cancer patients. Palliative care can be combined with cancer therapy.
According to the above definition, which of the following options is not palliative care?
A patient suffered severe pain after the operation and could not sleep. The doctor installed a pain pump and gave him a certain sedative so that the patient could rest well.