Early pregnancy complications and the Ethical and Religious Directives.

Ethical and religious directives for Catholic health care services.

In 1994, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops revised the "Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services." A goal of the Directives is to maintain the moral integrity of Catholic health care institutions and to address controversies in bioethics and health care. The Directives represent a shift to an exclusively principle-based approach to moral reason. This shift th...

Pnm-10: The Role of Nurses and Midwives in The Care of Women Volunteers Surrogacy

Background: Various methods of ART have been able help to many women to have children. Surrogacy is one of these methods that is performed in Iran like other country. According to development of this method we need to survey of all, legal, religious, moral, psychological and sociological aspects. Materials and Methods: A review of library. Results: Although in most of volunteers of Surrogacy wo...

The ethical and religious directives as particular law.

he Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Francis George, recently stated that the fifth edition of the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services is particular law for the Archdiocese of Chicago.1 In a few other dioceses, diocesan bishops have acted in a similar manner, and indeed, according to the Code of Canon Law of 1983, they have the right to promulgate particular laws fo...

Institutional cooperation and the ethical and religious directives.

Matters to address prior to introducing new life support technology in Japan: three serious ethical concerns related to the use of left ventricular assist devices as destination therapy and suggested policies to deal with them

BACKGROUND Destination therapy (DT) is the permanent implantation of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) in patients with end-stage, severe heart failure who are ineligible for heart transplantation. DT improves both the quality of life and prognosis of patients with end-stage heart failure. However, there are also downsides to DT such as life-threatening complications and the potential for...