Abstract

ARRIBALZAGA, Eduardo B. Ethics in surgical instrumentation. FEM (Ed. impresa) [online]. 2023, vol.26, n.4, pp.137-142.  Epub Feb 12, 2024. ISSN 2014-9840.  https://dx.doi.org/10.33588/fem.264.1291.

In the practice of surgery it is essential not only to study techniques and instruments in depth, but also that referred to the virtues and moral values of the surgical team to provide an impeccable ethical conduct in the operating room. The quality of care is assessed through the result of the services proposed and obtained, without neglecting ethical-moral aspects of the surgical instrumentator whose main function is not to harm the patient not only from the technical point of view but morally. During the presence of the patient in the operating room, ethical responses are always required when coordinating and providing care to cover the needs detected, whether physiological, psychological (fear, anxiety before surgery) or spiritual, but with respect for their beliefs and moral values. The assistant or auxiliary surgical, as an essential part of the surgical team, must refine these personal values (for example, not participate in an urgent surgery of an offender if there is a conflict of interest), identify without bias or prejudice the knowledge of the laws and codes of conduct (avoid abandonment of a person in need) and understand the values, beliefs and ethical principles of others in order to make a rational decision in the face of a mainly ethical dilemma. The surgical team will hold both scientific-technical and personal values with beliefs without conflicting with those of the patient, because when making morally and ethically valid decisions, act as a protector of the rights of the patient in a surgery.

Keywords : Ethic; Operating room; Surgery; Surgical assistant; Surgical team; Values.

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