GRUND 2008 nella sub area geografica 16 (GSA 16, Stretto di Sicilia): relazione finale

Il progetto Grund, finanziato a partire dal 1985 dapprima dalla D.G. Pesca e Acquacolura del Ministero per le politiche agricole, alimentari e forestali (MIPAAF) con i fondi della legge 41, in seguito dal MIPAAF e dalla DG IV della Commissione Europea, ha l’obiettivo generale di valutare la distribuzione, l’abbondanza e la composizione per taglia delle specie oggetto di pesca presenti nei mari Italiani. L’Istituto di ricerche sulle Risorse Marine e l’Ambiente, Sezione di Mazara del Vallo di IAMC-CNR, effettua campagne di ricerca in mare nella GSA 16 (FAO, 2001) dello Stretto di Sicilia, tramite rete a strascico (trawl survey), sin dalla primavera del 1985, con l’obiettivo generale di studiare l’abbondanza ed i cicli vitali delle risorse demersali e di stimarne lo stato di sfruttamento

Pandemia da Covid-19 e triage: considerazioni in merito al documento del Comitato Nazionale per la Bioetica

L’incontrollata diffusione del contagio e la mancanza di un’adeguata risposta organizzativa in termini di sanità pubblica4, hanno fatto sì che soprattutto in alcune regioni del nord del Paese, un numero elevatissimo di malati sottoponesse a una pressione massiva gli ospedali, trasformandoli ben presto in focolai di diffusione del contagio e determinando rapidamente, soprattutto nei reparti di Terapia Intensiva (TI), una disproporzione tra domanda di assistenza e risorse disponibili (personale formato, posti-letto, tecnologia)

Ruolo e finalità della bioetica nella moderna medicina intensiva: il Gruppo di Studio di Bioetica della SIAARTI

[Role and purposes of bioethics in the modern Intensive Medicine: the Bioethics Study Group SIAARTI]The Bioethics Study Group SIAARTI was officially set up in 1999. It was established to meet a need due to the changes in Intensive Medicine caused by the continuous pharmacologic and biotechnologic development in recent years. In fact a problem was posed: to balance the new intervention possibilities and the juridical and moral responsibilities raised by their management. The main purpose of BSG consists in proposing itself as mediator of a cultural process (1) defining and understanding the moral questions raised by the changes that the whole Intensive Medicine has caused about the birth, the care and the death of human beings; (2) offering to intensivists operative tools – recommendations – to solve, in clinical practice the complicated themes above mentioned. The present article runs through the moral reflection led by BSG SIAARTI in the last years, and explains the contents of these operative tools through the definition of the theoretic setting that produced them

The Italian law on informed consent and advance directives: its impact on intensive care units and the European legal framework

The Italian Parliament has recently approved a law on informed consent, advance directives and advance care planning. The law also deals with health care proxyand health care decisions for minors and adults who are not able to give consent. The Italian law arrived quite late in comparison with other European countries. After several years of debate on the need to approve such a law, the focus has now shifted to the assessment of the legislative provisions and their impact on clinical practice. In this article, the authors firstly offer an overview of the findings from the empirical research regarding the use of the different legal tools in the field of intensive care medicine; secondly, they present the tools now provided by law no. 219/2017 particularly with regardto the decision-making processes in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU); thirdly, the authors offer a comparison between the new Italian law and other European legal orders, with special referenceto France, Spain, Germany and England. The aim of the article is to assess the degree of innovation of the law vis-\ue0-vis the previous framework

Guiding principles for the development of legislation regulating the doctor-patient relationship and end-of-life decisions: a joint effort by believers and non-believers

Guiding principles for the development of legislation regulating the doctor-patient relationship and end-of-life decisions: a joint effort by believers and non-believer