Analysis of distributive justice as an inviolable bioethical principle in Intensive Care Units.

Abstract

Intensive Care Units as fundamental spaces within the hospitals assure a differentiated attention to patients in critical condition, by intensive medical staff, nursing, physiotherapy, psychology, epidemiology and others, as well as social services. This requires special ethical behavior of qualified personnel. It is in the application of the principle of distributive justice that there is evidence of a greater complexity and frequency of ethical dilemmas in the exercise of the biomedical professions in the environment of the Intensive Care Units. The distributive justice is analyzed as an inviolable bioethical principle in the Intensive Care Units.