Limitación del esfuerzo terapéutico en cuidados intensivos pediátricos: conocimiento y actitudes bioéticas del profesional médico
Author(s) -
Gonzalo Morales Valdés,
Tatiana Alvarado Romero,
Rodrigo Zuleta Castro
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
revista chilena de pediatría
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.241
H-Index - 16
eISSN - 0717-6228
pISSN - 0370-4106
DOI - 10.1016/j.rchipe.2015.10.002
Subject(s) - bioethics , intensive care , specialty , medicine , ethics committee , clinical ethics , observational study , family medicine , nursing , psychology , intensive care medicine , political science , public administration , law , engineering ethics , engineering
Paediatric intensive care is a relatively new specialty, with significant technological advances that lead to the prolongation of the dying process. One of the most common bioethical problems is limitation of treatment, which is the adequacy and/or proportionality treatment, trying to avoid obstinacy and futility.
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