A ortotanásia em questão: reflexões a partir de pacientes soropositivos terminais.

2013 
The topic death is still considered a taboo in many places, especially when associated to the concept of HIV/AIDS. Even with the development in Medicine it is noticed that there is a movement against the reduction in the percentage of contamination by the HIV virus. The SUS (Unique Health System) provides a chain of accompaniment and free medical treatment. If there is no treatment, the body will suffer. With the aim of reverting the disease, doctors use all their knowledge, but they are not successful in some cases. How may Medicine proceed when death is eminent? Thinking about this issue, it was aimed to understand the vision of professionals of Medicine of FMT-HIV about orthonasia and how actions on this theme contribute to the process of humanization in the hospital context. For this reason a qualitative methodology was chosen in order to organize a semistructured interview able to gleam a doctor-patient relation, the process of life and death, making a decision and the care done as stopgaps. We intend to offer a vision on the ways Medicine has used, since the introduction in 2009 in the Resolution no 1.931 in its Ethical Code, responsible by the Humanitarian principles, also involving Orthonasia. Besides, we have discussed the theme considering the National Humanization Politics that praises the value, autonomy and the protagonism of the several actors involved in the scene of the
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