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A review of ethical issues in cardiac surgery highlights the increasing importance of informed consent, conflict of interest, and professional self-regulation in clinical practice and research.
This article reviews ethical issues in cardiac surgery, including informed consent, conflict of interest, and professional self-regulation.
Emphasizes ethical vigilance in cardiac surgery; leaves open how to operationalize consent and self-regulation in trials.
While ethical behavior has always been part of cardiac surgical practice, ethical deliberation has only recently become an important component of cardiac surgical practice. Issues such as informed consent, conflict of interest and professional self-regulation, among many others, have increasingly attracted the attention of cardiac surgeons. This article covers several broad topics of interest to cardiac surgeons and cardiologists and discusses several other topics more briefly. There is much uncertainty regarding what the future holds for cardiac surgical practice, research and culture and we also discuss the background of ethical issues to serve as a platform for envisioning what is to come.
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Kavarana et al. (2012) conducted a review in Ethical issues in cardiac surgery. A review of ethical issues in cardiac surgery highlights the increasing importance of informed consent, conflict of interest, and professional self-regulation in clinical practice and research.
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