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Ethical implications in management of gravely ill children attended in a pediatric patient critical unit Implicancias éticas en el manejo del niño gravemente enfermo atendido en una unidad de paciente crítico pediátrica
Fecha
2014Registro en:
Acta Bioethica, Volumen 20, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 51-59
1726569X
07175906
10.4067/S1726-569X2014000100006
Autor
Pino Armijo, Paola
San Juan Hurtado, Lorena
Monasterio Ocares, María Carolina
Institución
Resumen
Aims: To identify the current clinical management of children gravely ill attended in a Pediatric Patient Critical Unit (PPCU), to analyze the ethical implication of management and to propose strategies for the management from a bioethical perspective. Methods: Bibliography revision using data base Medline/Pubmed, Lilacs, ProQuest, Cinhal and SciELO between April and July 2012. For analysis, 29 articles were selected that fulfilled inclusion criteria. Results: Medical advances and the incapacity to recognize and understand death as something natural increasingly make more difficult to establish the limit between a proportionate and disproportionate treatment. With the eagerness of finding a moral framework to facilitate decision making, bioethics -and particularly principle based theory- provides for health care team four principles regulating professional exercise: autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence and justice. The correct balance among them will allow to provide basic care with