Morsy Ahmed, Flexman Jennifer
Biomedical Engineering Department, Cairo University, Egypt.
Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2008;2008:3823. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2008.4650042.
This session focuses on a number of aspects of the subject of Ethics in Biomedical Engineering. The session starts by providing a case study of a company that manufactures artificial heart valves where the valves were failing at an unexpected rate. The case study focuses on Biomedical Engineers working at the company and how their education and training did not prepare them to deal properly with such situation. The second part of the session highlights the need to learn about various ethics rules and policies regulating research involving human or animal subjects.
本次会议聚焦于生物医学工程伦理主题的多个方面。会议开篇呈现了一家制造人工心脏瓣膜的公司的案例研究，该公司的瓣膜出现了意外的高故障率。该案例研究关注的是在这家公司工作的生物医学工程师，以及他们所接受的教育和培训如何未能让他们做好应对此类情况的准备。会议的第二部分强调了了解规范涉及人类或动物受试者研究的各种伦理规则和政策的必要性。
