Reactions of Bioethics to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Reactions of Bioethics to the Covid-19 Pandemic

Summary/Abstract: Last year, the three waves of the infection with SARS-CoV-2 generated immensechallenges for the global healthcare, requiring healthcare systems to adjust care models and todesign, within safety parameters, the ways of performing research. Within the circumstancesof the new medical context of COVID-19 pandemic, bioethics provided efficient support,both in medical practice and scientific research. Through its interventions, bioethics tried tocover the most important aspects involved in the interaction with patient, ensuring qualitystandards of the medical act, complying with epidemiologic security requirements andensuring conditions for the safety of the patient, of the medical staff and of the community ingeneral. Due to these endeavors, bioethics placed itself in the focal point of the debates uponwhich legal and management regulations were founded, concurrently assuming the necessityof notifications and periodic revisions of the professional ethics codes, therefore envisioningan optimal adjustment to the pandemic context. This paper follows the way in whichbioethics maintains updated its role and the significance of its intervention in the medical act,as well as necessary orientations and landmarks in guiding medical care following globalethical considerations, with the aim to help medical providers to take the best decisions, andwhen these are made, to ensure that the reasons for the choice are the correct ones

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