Bioética en cirugía cardiovascular. Teorías éticas aplicadas

Abstract

Valve surgery, myocardial revascularization or heart transplant programs, are directly related to the recognition of the dignity of the person and their fundamental rights to health and life. Allowing the patient, the benefit of the intervention will improve their health and quality of life. Bioethics is related to health, life and human behavior and examines actions and decisions through normative ethics that studies moral values through ethical theories. Utilitarianism, Consequentialism, Ethics, Virtue Ethics, Principialism, Casuistry and Proceduralism, helping to better understand moral and ethical decision-making in the face of the dilemma, risks and possible complications, as well as their benefits. The ethical reflection that should be associated with each medical-surgical activity is sometimes taken for granted and the particular ethical analysis of each procedure is taken for granted. The purpose of this reflection is to know that every medical act that is performed in a cardiovascular surgery program is related to ethical theories and the autonomy of the medical professional in their self-regulation, ethics, rationality and scientific evidence. The objective of this article is to argue about bioethics in cardiovascular surgery through normative ethics with applied ethical theories.