Porras-Ramírez G, Estrada-Natoli F, Martínez-Zubieta R

Language: Spanish
References: 18
Page: 120-123
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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this paper is three-fold: A. To seek understanding between emergency care physicians and physicians in intensive care units (ICU), and to integrate a team with the same principles and common protocols in trauma patients B. To reflect briefly on the bioethic problems involved in an ICU C. Suggest the creation of a emergency and trauma committee, an ethics committee or an optimal care committee to standardize criteria at the national level in order to make decisions in ICUs. Because it is in these units that many traumatized patients who survive the first 48 h after an accident die or have complications. Patient selection using triage and predictive systems of evaluation are mentioned, as well as the ethical problems faced on a daily basis.

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