From 24th to 26th November 2025 the 17th World Conference In Bioethics, Medical Ethics and Health Law will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The World Conference will provide its participants with an international hub for valuable scientific debate on more than 60 topics and subtopics in the fields of bioethics, medical ethics, health law, and related areas such as artificial intelligence, unique health, scientific integrity, or environmental protection.
Presenters will include Fr. Badr, PhD in Bioethics and UNESCO Chair Research Scholar, and Dr. Fabiano Nigris, PhD student of the Faculty of Bioethics, Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, Rome.
Title: Advance care planning in severe prematurity. A personalist perspective
Abstract: Decisions which are particularly serious and fraught with ethical dilemmas are those involving severely pre-term infants (weeks of gestation < 27) where, concurrently, active survivorship therapies or palliative care may be offered according to parental opinion and the clinical context of advance care planning. The latter is based on two situations: the prediction that the infant has a high probability of dying even if treatment is continued, and the concern for the infant’s future quality of life in case of survival. In this decision-making relationship involving physicians, health care personnel, and parents, patients cannot participate, but Clinical Practice Ethics Committees can fit in as ethical support for decisions. The aim of this presentation is to analyze this dilemma from a personalist perspective in a multi-cultural context such as today’s society presents.
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