Contexto geopolítico, globalización, crisis civilizatoria y paz en Colombia / Geopolitical context, globalization, civilizing crisis, and peace in Colombia

El presente artículo, trata de confrontar los fundamentos e ideas fuerza que caracterizan la globalización como expresión hegemonizada del modelo de desarrollo capitalista en su fase actual, de corte financiero especulativo y con énfasis predominantemente extractivista, con uno de los factores característicos y determinares de la búsqueda y construcción de idearios e imaginarios de paz en Colombia.

This article aims to compare the foundations and ideas, which characterize globalization as a hegemonic expression of the model of the capitalist development,in its current state, of a speculative and financial type and predominantly extractive, with one of the characteristic and determining factors for the search and the construction of ideologies and imaginaries of peace in Colombia.

Análisis de una experiencia de consultoría ético clínica en cuidado intensivo / Analysis of a clinical ethics consultation experience in intensive care

Background: Very few patients are presented to ethics committees, and individual ethics consultations are a response to this situation. At the intensive care unit (ICU) in Clínica Alemana, Santiago Chile, an ethics consultation system was organized coordinated with the ethics committee. Aim: To report an evaluation of this ethics consultation system. Material and Methods: Analysis of the frst 50 cases analyzed in the consultation system. Analysis of the responses of intensive care physicians to a questionnaire about the main ethical problems that they face in their work. Results: The consultation system is mainly required by the ICU staff, and reports to the ethics committee. Fifty four percent of patients subjected to consultation were aged over 80 years. The main diagnoses were neurological, oncological or cardiopulmonary problems. The ethical problems identifed were treatment limitation (62 percent), proportionality or futility (42 percent), need of a peaceful death (36 percent), lack of anticipated decisions (28 percent), disagreement between physicians and patient’s family (24 percent), undefined subrogation (14 percent), and abuse of public resources (14 percent). Twenty six of 31 ICU physicians answered the questionnaire, using a 1 (min) to 7 (max.) scale. They found that consultation is helpful for decision making (6.3), useful for improving ethical perception (6.0), supportive for staff (6.5), good for patients (6.3), supportive for families (6.7), and timely performed (5.2). Conclusions: As a complement for the ethics committee’s work, consultation is a valid alternative for ethics counselling and a support for physicians and patient’s families. Its implementation depends on the particularities of each health institution.

Consultoria em ética clínica na Suíça / Clinical ethics consultancy in Switzerland

A realização de Consultorias em Ética Clínica tem sido reduzida, muitas vezes, a uma simples aplicação de um método de análise de casos baseados em princípios. A consultoria seria reduzida a uma simples avaliação de um conflito entre princípios. A proposta de uma abordagem baseada em uma Deliberação de Caso Moral pode ser uma alternativa importante, onde o consultor atua como facilitador e não tomando decisões que cabem aos profissionais de saúde.

Clinical Ethics Consultancy, often, has been reduced as a simple method of case analysis based on principles. The consultancy would be reduced to a simple evaluation of a conflict between principles. The proposed approach based on a Moral Case Deliberation could be an important alternative, where the consultant acts as a facilitator and not as a decision maker.