Background: Clinical Ethics Committees are deliberative groups whose main functions are to assess cases with ethical-clinical conflicts, to generate institutional protocols for preventive purposes, and to train health teams.
Aim: To analyze the activity of a clinical ethics committee of a general hospital in the period 2007-2020.
Material And Methods: A retrospective analysis of all session records, annual reports, case resolution and documents generated by the Clinical Ethics Committee of Carlos van Buren Hospital in Valparaíso, Chile, between 2007 and 2020, was carried out.
► We expose an novel surgical technique in pregnant women with cervical cancer. ► We preserve the pregnancy in this case. ► After 40 months of monitoring both patient and her child are healthy.
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