Proposal for the elaboration of a triage guideline in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This document offers a proposal for the elaboration of a triage guideline in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. This proposal includes recommendations on the procedural norms and substantive norms that should govern the allocation and reallocation of therapeutic resources in conditions of extreme scarcity.

Beyond Bioethics: A Child Rights-Based Approach to Complex Medical Decision-Making.

This analysis adopts a child rights approach-based on the principles, standards, and norms of child rights and the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)-to explore how decisions could be made with regard to treatment of a severely impaired infant (Baby G).

The Potential Value of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child in Pediatric Bioethics Settings.

This article provides support for the use of a particular international human rights law document, the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), in contemporary pediatric bioethics practice without relying on the legally binding force of the document.

[The "weak and sensitive elements" of the pediatric and adolescents' clinical trials].

The ethical review of clinical research on children and adolescents should be centered in aspects related to their condition of vulnerability, which is nurtured by biological, emotional, equity and justice elements.However, the suggested vision in this case, without overlooking previously mentioned characteristics, is the one that seeks to delve deeper in one of the actors of the research process: the clinical research protocol.The objective is to determine the presence or not of "fragile zones or weak spots" in its interior, that when individualized and considered, will contribute to improve the quality of the ethical review on children and adolescent research.