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ABSTRACT

Medicine practice has always brought up ethical prob-lems and demanded a high moral quality from the doctor. One of the most important ethical dilemmas to consider in Cardiology is assisting advanced or end-stage heart failure patients. In order to analyze these aspects, a bibliographic review and a strict analysis of the subject were carried out, upheld by our findings in related literature. There are different ethical conflicts concerning this type of patient’s care: poor health team clarity to identify when being be-fore an end-stage state, little palliative care implementa-tion, medicalization of death, therapeutic cruelty and solu-tions, and problems generated by implanted devices in such end-stage patients. An adequate doctor-patient-fami-ly relationship, a correct health personnel ethical training, as well as continuous thorough investigation, are the strat-egies to solve ethical dilemmas coming up when caring for these patients.