Clinical Bioethics Committees. An experience

Abstract

Clinical Bioethics Committees or Care Ethics Committees are institutions that emerged in hospitals to help anyone who requests it in making complex decisions from the standpoint of moral ethics. The method is that of deliberation involving people with different backgrounds and perspectives in order to enrich the analysis of the case through the facts, identify values, duties and evaluation of the consequences and thus allow the decision-making prudent and optimal. The Committees have no decision-making but purely advisory nature, not binding, so they offer to anyone who looks at his point of view, in order to help you in your decision making. At the National Institute of Child Health since 2002 we have the only Clinical Bioethics Committee in the country, as in other institutions that merged with the ethics of research. To this end staff are trained annually to not only medical but also from other professions. In 2010, reorganized and updated the Committee on Rules, issue reports of case analysis is carried out discussions with the presence of prominent bioethicists like Peter Simon Lorda, Azucena Couseiro, Diego Gracia and Emilio Ibeas. It is a challenge we have in medical institutions to promote our behavior bioethics at times that you play the well-being of our patients during medical procedures. Its role is to assess not only cases it encourage education and the preparation of protocols for institutional development.