Resumen

SERRANO RICARDO, Giselle  y  GONZALEZ MOREJON, Adel Eladio. Ethical foundations of the clinical method and transthoracic echocardiography in children with congenital cardiopathies. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2015, vol.15, n.2, pp.226-240. ISSN 1727-8120.

It is proposed a reflexion about the clinical method and its stages, the doctor-patient relation and the presence of technology in paediatric cardiology. The transthoracic echocardiography can4t substitute medical thought, neither the anamnesis nor the physical examination. As a diagnostic medium carried out and interpreted by humans, it is subject to error, which it is minimized according to the quality of the clinical data provided by the doctor who requests them. The present work has the objective to analyse the Ethical foundations of the clinical method in connection with the use of transthoracic echocardiography in children with congenital cardiopathies.

Palabras clave : Ethics; clinical method; echocardiography; congenital heart defects.

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