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International Surgery and Ortho Conference

October 25-26, 2017 | Toronto, Canada

Case Rep Surg Invasive Proced 2017 | Volume 1 Issue 3

Palliative medicine in surgery: The palliative medicine at the end of life

Hilda Romero Zepeda

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César Gutiérrez Samperio

Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro, México

he palliative medicine promotes its appropriate use respect

to the will and dignity of the patient. It should be applied

by a multidisciplinary team, who accompany the patient

throughout the progression of their condition, strengthening

doctors and health team`s relationship with the patients and

their families. The present presentationwill describe and reflect

the ethical and legal bases of palliative medicine: The concepts

of palliative medicine, the patient-health team relationship and

the right of the patients to receive palliative care, its application

in surgery, the criterion defining the terminally ill, proportionate

and disproportionate measures, drugs and procedures used,

personnel to administrate it and for how long and how to avoid

therapeutics obstinacy, will be reviewed, where it supports the

palliative medicine at the end of the life.

Speaker Biography

Hilda Romero-Zepeda is one of the academic collaborators to establish the Three

Nations Consortium Mex-USA-Can (2006-2011) on Bioethics and Public Policy for

Science, and the Three Nation’s Consortium for the Caribbean Research Ethics

Education Initiative CREEI (2013-2018) between Clarkson University (USA), Saint

George University (Grenada) and Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro (Mexico). Her

interests of research have allowed her to establish and execute different intervention

programs on chronic degenerative diseases and public health programs for both urban

and rural indigenous communities, and its participation in processes of mainstreaming

institutional curriculum for the equity of gender and eradication of violence towards

vulnerable groups. Nowadays, she is working on intervention programs for community

development and sustainability but from the ethics perspective for technology

and biotechnology transferences to indigenous and marginal rural communities.

She coordinates the Master’s Degree Program on Applied Ethics and Bioethics,

interdisciplinary studies in Applied Ethics and Bioethics. She is the Co-Organizer and

Speaker at the International Certificate in Applied Ethics and Bioethics (2007-2016)

and for the International Diplomado CREEI. She is the compiler in five interdisciplinary

research and applied ethics books, co-author in 14 chapters of books, 8 indexed articles

by invitation; Director or 11 joint Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral thesis Advisor; 6

projects of research and bonding in joint in health public, development sustainable,

bioethics and gender.