An ethical problem in Surgery. Personal experience

Authors

  • Jesús Isaac de Armas Prado Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba
  • Lourdes de Armas Álvarez

Keywords:

ethics medical, surgery

Abstract

A case is presented where a patient referred to the General Surgery Service from the Luanda Main Military Hospital, Angola, has suffered a great loss of abdominal wall, fibrinopurulent peritonitis and severe sepsis due to firearm abdominal wound, and had improved its general condition in spite of divergent criteria about its state.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Author Biographies

Jesús Isaac de Armas Prado, Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico “Arnaldo Milián Castro”, Santa Clara, Villa Clara, Cuba

Especialista de I y II Grados en Cirugía General. Profesor Asistente del Instituto Superior de Ciencias Médicas de Villa Clara “Dr. Serafín Ruiz de Zárate Ruiz”.

Lourdes de Armas Álvarez

Residente de Medicina General Integral

References

1. Peabody FW. The care of the patient. JAMA. 1927;88:887-82.

2. Ramírez Barba E. La medicina basada en la evidencia. Cultura de la práctica de la cirugía segura. México: Secretaría de la Salud del Estado de Guanajuato; 2003.

3. Castillo Yañez P. Ética y Cirugía. Rev Chilena Cir. 2002;55(1):15-18.

4. Patiño JF. Ética, moral y deontología en la práctica médica. En: Lecciones de Cirugía. Buenos Aires: [s.n]; 2003. p. 1-4.

5. Littlewwood R. From disease to illness and back again. Lancet. 1999;337:1013-16.

6. Sánchez F. Temas de ética médica [serie en Internet]. [citado 12 abr 2005]:[aprox. 3p.]. Disponible en: http://www.encolombia.com

7. Código de Ética. Asociación Mexicana de Cirugía General; 2002.

8. Aprá R. Bioética en área crítica. Med Intens. 1992;9:20-32.

9. Patiño JF. Ética, moral y deontología en la práctica médica. En: Lecciones de cirugía. Bogotá: Editorial Médica Panamericana; 2000. p. 25-6.

Downloads

How to Cite

1.
de Armas Prado JI, de Armas Álvarez L. An ethical problem in Surgery. Personal experience. Acta Méd Centro [Internet]. 2007 May 1 [cited 2025 Jun. 28];1(1):75-8. Available from: https://revactamedicacentro.sld.cu/index.php/amc/article/view/324

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2007): May-August

Section

Letters to the Editor

License

Authors who have publications with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors will retain their copyright and assign to the journal the right of first publication of their work, which will simultaneously be subject to a Creative Commons License / Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) that allows third parties to share the work as long as its author and first publication in this journal are indicated.
  2. Authors may adopt other non-exclusive license agreements for distribution of the published version of the work (e.g., depositing it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a monographic volume) as long as the initial publication in this journal is indicated.
  3. Authors are allowed and encouraged to disseminate their work through the Internet (e.g., in institutional telematic archives or on their web page) before and during the submission process, which can produce interesting exchanges and increase citations of the published work. (See The effect of open access).