BIOETHICAL APPROACH IN VASCULAR SURGERY
BIOETHICAL APPROACH IN VASCULAR SURGERY

Summary/Abstract: Ethical approach is essential in the relationship between physician and patient. The principles of ethics must be observed in patient study, treatment or in clinical trials. Medical ethics suffered changes and a permanent evolution from the classical Hippocratic Oath to nowadays, along with evolution of society on the whole. The present paper will discuss, based on 6 study cases, the main bioethical rules in vascular surgery, debating upon patient-surgeon relationship, patient's autonomy in therapeutical decision and self-determination, the principles of benefit and „non nocere”, the impact of health resourse allocation and professionalism of health care.

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