title: [Ethics and mechanical ventilation].
abstract: Clinical ethics is a practical discipline that proposes a structured approach for identifying, analyzing and resolving ethical problems in health care. Mechanical ventilation is usually administered in clinical situations that can provoke ethical conflicts. To resolve these conflicts, in each case four aspects should be analyzed: Medical indications, patient and family preferences, quality of life, and contextual features (social, economic, legal, and administrative).
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D012121:Respiration, Artificial / Q000941:ethics*
vernacular_title: Aspectoséticos de la ventilación mecánica.