16 articles in this issue
Fernando Lolas Stepke
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María de la Luz Casas M., Rosa María Sánchez Javier
Ectopic pregnancy (EP) consists in the implantation of a fertilized ovule in the fallopian tube. The fact is that EP will continue to appear many times to physicians in the form of an urgent clinical episode of intra abdominal bleeding. The physician may ... see more
Paulina Taboada R.
This article analyzes the use of palliative sedation, as a potentially useful therapeutic tool in Palliative Medicine. It suggests that, in spite of the improvement of medical knowledge related to palliative sedation during the last decade, available empi... see more
María Cristina Paredes Escobar
One of the main problems of clinical bioethics related to the end of life is the limits to therapeutic efforts. Its fair practice is reduced to limit efforts when the circumstances of the patient point to the lack of possibilities for recovering. The goal... see more
Sérgio d’Ávila, Alessandro Leite Cavalcanti, Arnaldo de França Caldas JR
To identify which criteria influenced the selection of patients by dentists in a city of Northeastern Brazil. A cross-sectional study was carried out by collecting data through a questionnaire, consisting of identification data and a case scenario, 308 re... see more
Graciela Moya
The subsidiary principle, broadly defined in political and social philosophy, refers not only to the relations between communities, but also to relations of the individual with any type of social community. The subsidiary principle promotes the dignity of... see more
Vicente Bellver Capella
Immigration has become an universal phenomenon. One of its effects is the increase in children of international origin in pediatric consultation. This is a doubly vulnerable population, because of being children and because of belonging to cultural contex... see more
Fernando Suárez-Obando, Adriana Ordóñez Vásquez
Medical Informatics (MI) studies the intersection among computer technology, medicine and the influence of electronic clinical history and the intelligent systems for diagnosis support in clinical decision making. The inadequate use of technology may dive... see more
Mauricio Besio Rollero
Scientific research has made possible new hopes for the cure of diverse pathologies provoked by degenerative processes or by direct damage on organs and tissues. One of the fields of study most promising is the use of pluripotential cells, being their mai... see more
Alejandra Zúñiga Fajuri
A model for adjudication of health care resources which gathers the comparative experience and the analysis developed by specialized literature, must start from the premise that the application of exclusion mechanisms of patients openly discriminatory —su... see more
César Cárcamo Quezada
An adverse event is not an objective problem, since its measure or quantification does not constitute the problem as a field with explanations and statements, but the application of shared validation criteria of causal explanations by a community of obser... see more
María Inés Winkler, Katherine Alvear, Bárbara Olivares, Diana Pasmanik
Community psychology has suffered huge transformations associated to a historical and contextual process in our country, involving a series of ethical issues which have not been dealt with both in training and deontological discipline. The aim of this res... see more
María Jesús Gómez Ramos, Francisco Miguel González Valverde
Aim: To apply an enhancement circle for informed consent for transfusion of blood derivatives. Patients and Method: During 10 months 577 intervened patients were included in General Hospital Reina Sofia of Murcia, Spain. Six criteria were selected related... see more
Allan Ulisses Carvalho de Melo, Suzane Rodrigues Jacinto Gonçalves, Cyntia Ferreira Ribeiro, Thiago de Santana Santos, Augusto Tadeu Ribeiro de Santana
Professional ethics codes are norms (federal authority resolutions) prepared by members of the different categories of workers with the goal to guide the ethical conduct of these professionals in relation to patients, colleagues and society. The aim of th... see more
Leonor Palomer Roggerone
There are different modalities to receive remunerations in liberal careers such as dentistry. In general, payment is done for actions carried out by time dedicated to execute them. In some cases, the amount of payment is directly related to the diagnosis ... see more
Isabel Cornejo Plaza