Thiagarajan Ravi I, Scheurer Mark A, Salvin Joshua W
Children's Hospital Intensive Care Unit, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115 USA.
Medical University of South Carolina Children's Hospital, 169 Ashley Avenue, Charleston, SC 29425 USA.
J Clin Ethics. 2014 Winter;25(4):311-3.
Medical missions to provide cardiac surgical procedures in developing and technologically less advanced countries is a great challenge. It is also immensely gratifying, personally and professionally. Such missions typically present significant ethical dilemmas, especially making difficult choices, given limited time and resources, and the inability to help all children in need of cardiac surgery. We describe some of these issues from our perspective as visiting cardiologists.
在发展中国家和技术欠发达的国家开展心脏外科手术医疗任务是一项巨大的挑战。但从个人和职业角度来看，这也极其令人满足。此类任务通常会带来重大的伦理困境，尤其是在时间和资源有限且无法帮助所有需要心脏手术的儿童的情况下，做出艰难抉择。作为来访的心脏病专家，我们从自身角度描述其中的一些问题。
