Orientaciones éticas para la toma de decisiones médicas en el contexto de la pandemia de COVID-19 en Chile

The catastrophic emergency experienced by many countries with the COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the importance of bioethics for decision-making, both at the public health (equitable and effective policies) and at the clinical level. At the clinical level, the issues are the fulfillment of medical car...

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description The catastrophic emergency experienced by many countries with the COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the importance of bioethics for decision-making, both at the public health (equitable and effective policies) and at the clinical level. At the clinical level, the issues are the fulfillment of medical care demand with adequate health care teams, infrastructure, and supplies, and to cover critical care demands that surpass the available resources. Therefore, ethically correct approaches are required for the allocation of life sustaining resources. There are recommendations for the allocating life support during disasters based on multiple considerations, including ethical ones. However, the ethical criteria of existing guidelines are variable. Ethical principles usually considered are saving the greatest number of lives, saving the greatest number of years of life and the principle of the life cycle or the goal to give each individual equal opportunity to live through the various phases of life. However, the centrality of the human being and the search for the common good should be considered. Knowledge of public perspectives and moral benchmarks on these issues is essential. A successful assignment effort will require everyone's trust and cooperation. Decision making should be planned and discussed in advance, since in-depth deliberation will be extremely complex during the disaster. Our goal is to help the health care teams to wisely allocate resources in shortage periods.
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spelling Valera, Luca
Carrasco Barraza, Maria Alejandra
Lopez Barreda, Rodrigo Alonso
Ramos Vergara, Paulina Cecilia
Bernhardi Montgomery, Rommy von
Bedregal Garcia, Paula
Florenzano, Alejandra
Pérez Hernández, Iván Modesto
Olivares Osorio, Patricia Carolina
Vargas Celis, Ivonne
González, Ximena
López S., Paulo
Durán Saavedra, Gloria Patricia
Richards, Constanza
Castro, Ricardo
2025-10-09T20:54:39Z
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The catastrophic emergency experienced by many countries with the COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the importance of bioethics for decision-making, both at the public health (equitable and effective policies) and at the clinical level. At the clinical level, the issues are the fulfillment of medical care demand with adequate health care teams, infrastructure, and supplies, and to cover critical care demands that surpass the available resources. Therefore, ethically correct approaches are required for the allocation of life sustaining resources. There are recommendations for the allocating life support during disasters based on multiple considerations, including ethical ones. However, the ethical criteria of existing guidelines are variable. Ethical principles usually considered are saving the greatest number of lives, saving the greatest number of years of life and the principle of the life cycle or the goal to give each individual equal opportunity to live through the various phases of life. However, the centrality of the human being and the search for the common good should be considered. Knowledge of public perspectives and moral benchmarks on these issues is essential. A successful assignment effort will require everyone's trust and cooperation. Decision making should be planned and discussed in advance, since in-depth deliberation will be extremely complex during the disaster. Our goal is to help the health care teams to wisely allocate resources in shortage periods.
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Ethics, clinical
Health planning guidelines
Resource allocation
Orientaciones éticas para la toma de decisiones médicas en el contexto de la pandemia de COVID-19 en Chile
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spellingShingle Orientaciones éticas para la toma de decisiones médicas en el contexto de la pandemia de COVID-19 en Chile
Ethics, clinical
Health planning guidelines
Resource allocation
title Orientaciones éticas para la toma de decisiones médicas en el contexto de la pandemia de COVID-19 en Chile
title_full Orientaciones éticas para la toma de decisiones médicas en el contexto de la pandemia de COVID-19 en Chile
title_fullStr Orientaciones éticas para la toma de decisiones médicas en el contexto de la pandemia de COVID-19 en Chile
title_full_unstemmed Orientaciones éticas para la toma de decisiones médicas en el contexto de la pandemia de COVID-19 en Chile
title_short Orientaciones éticas para la toma de decisiones médicas en el contexto de la pandemia de COVID-19 en Chile
title_sort orientaciones eticas para la toma de decisiones medicas en el contexto de la pandemia de covid 19 en chile
topic Ethics, clinical
Health planning guidelines
Resource allocation
topic_facet Ethics, clinical
Health planning guidelines
Resource allocation
url https://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/106015