The ethical review and reflection on in-utero pediatrics
10.12026/j.issn.1001-8565.2024.02.11
- VernacularTitle:宫内儿科学的伦理审视与思考
- Author:
Min SHI
1
;
Qicheng HUANG
;
Shuming PAN
;
Jiyin ZHOU
Author Information
1. 上海交通大学医学院附属新华医院医学伦理委员会,上海 200092
- Keywords:
in-utero pediatrics;
emerging discipline;
medical ethics;
ethical review
- From:
Chinese Medical Ethics
2024;37(2):189-193
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
In-utero pediatrics is a fetal general medicine for perinatal medicine redevelopment,with the main purpose of preventing and treating fetal diseases,which studies the early prevention,screening,diagnosis,and treatment of diseases from gametes,fertilized eggs,and embryos sequential to children,adolescents,adolescence,and even the entire life cycle.Medical ethics provides strong support for the normative development of this discipline.This paper summarized the formation and development of in-utero pediatrics,analyzed the vulnerability of service subjects within in-utero pediatrics,and sorted out their ethical issues in the prevention and control of birth defects,fetal intrauterine diagnosis and treatment,as well as multidisciplinary collaborative diagnosis and treatment.It was proposed that in-utero pediatrics should follow the medical principle of maternal and fetal interests first,the principle of respect,and the principle of no harm.Finally,suggestions for ethical review of clinical and research projects on in-utero pediatrics were proposed,including strengthening the advisory service role of the ethics committee in clinical practice,timely launching the guidelines of ethical review for clinical research,and enhancing the ethical awareness of medical staff.
