Abstract

MORENO SANCHEZ, José A et al. Ethics principles and values applied to laparoscopic surgery. Acta méd. Grupo Ángeles [online]. 2019, vol.17, n.4, pp.364-371.  Epub Sep 27, 2021. ISSN 1870-7203.

Given that minimally invasive surgery evolved and expanded extraordinarily, it is convenient to establish limits and guidelines for its rational, responsible and successful practice. Ethics allows us to take a distance between our mere impulses and the position adopted from the values that necessarily exist, even in a plural context, to direct our actions freely and autonomously. When habits perfect or are in accordance with fully human tendencies, they are called virtues. We start from the ethics of the virtues as a model of thought that can be applied to surgery and is based on the operational habits that are made specifically under individual characteristics. Although the clinical files do not measure this, they are evident in medical practice and should be considered in the proposals for patient safety and harm reduction, since only the procedures that comply with the scientific bases, the legal framework and the Universal ethical values, you can expect better results. In this paper we associate formal principles of morality, ethical values, and vices with the rules proposed by Levinson in laparoscopic surgery in order to reinforce its application and avoid harm to patients.

Keywords : Bioethics; laparoscopy; surgery.