Atuesta Juana, Vásquez Pablo, Roa Juan David, Acuña Hilda
Servicio de Psiquiatría, Comité de Ética Hospitalaria, Hospital de San José, Bogotá, Colombia.
Unidad de Cuidado Intensivo Pediátrico, Hospital de San José, Bogotá, Colombia.
Rev Colomb Psiquiatr. 2016 Jul-Sep;45(3):224-7. doi: 10.1016/j.rcp.2015.09.004. Epub 2015 Oct 23.
Decision-making is one of the most difficult tasks of medical judgment, especially when cases involve paediatric patients with different cultural characteristics. It is the obligation of clinical ethics, taking the interdisciplinary approach as a tool to comprehensively analyse the clinical, social, cultural and legal aspects, among other topics, when choosing the treatment options that will be more beneficial for the patient. A clinical case, should enable this process of analysis and teamwork to be understood in practical way in order to address difficult medical problems.
