Development of integrative bioethics in the Mediterranean area of South-East Europe.

With regards to its origin, foundation and development, bioethics is a relatively new discipline, scientific and theoretical field, where different and even contradicting definition models and methodological patterns of its formation and application meet. In some philosophical orientations, bioethics is considered to be a sub-discipline of applied ethics as a traditional philosophical discipline. Yet in biomedical and other sciences, bioethics is designated as a specialist scientific discipline, or a sort of a new medical ethics.

[Splenorrhaphy and partial splenectomy as an alternative to splenectomy in trauma--overview].

For many year splenectomy was considered to be the only possible surgical treatment for all laceration of the spleen, whether resulting from abdominal contusion or not. Such factors have led to changes in practical attitudes to splenic lacerations but it would seem that indications for a conservative approach must be based upon the underlaying condition and the precise nature of the lesions. Splenectomy should be done promptly in cases of concomitant splenic and cerebral injury and in patients with injury of multiple organ systems.

[Perforation of the small intestine as a sequela of blunt injuries of the abdomen during a 12-year period].

The paper presents 44 cases of small intestine perforation caused by blunt abdominal trauma in a period of 12 years. 34 patients were men and 10 were women. The patients were aged from 10 to 82 years which gives an average age of 39 years.