| Ethical issues related to professional exposure of pregnant women in the medical field: monitoring and limiting effective dose. | |
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PMID: 21068015 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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The International Commission on Radiological Protection recommendations for occupational exposed pregnant women do not imply necessarily the complete avoidance of work with radiation or radioactive materials. Instead, a careful review of the exposure conditions, once the pregnancy is declared, as part of the exercise of the ICRP optimisation principle (based in a teleological ethics point of view) is suggested. The dose limitation (following a deontological ethics point of view) of the fetus/embryo is, however, not clearly well established as happens in the case of workers or members of the public. Also, the justification of practices (to continue to work or not with radiation or radioactive materials) is not clearly addressed in most national or international recommendations. An analysis of this justification (bearing in mind both teleological and deontological ethics) is examined in this work having in mind the best interest of the child-to-be as well as other existing social and economical factors. |
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J A M Santos; R Nunes |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2010-11-09 |
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Title: Radiation protection dosimetry Volume: 144 ISSN: 1742-3406 ISO Abbreviation: Radiat Prot Dosimetry Publication Date: 2011 |
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Created Date: 2011-03-31 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8109958 Medline TA: Radiat Prot Dosimetry Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 525-9 Citation Subset: IM |
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Serviço de Física Médica, Instituto Português de Oncologia do Porto, EPE, Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal. |
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