Protect yourself when helping the patient! What every pediatrician needs to know? (post-release)

P.G. Gabai¹, E.Yu. Radtsig², A.S. Dukhanin²

¹Federal Research and Clinical Center of the Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow

²Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow

From March 5 to 7, 2021, Moscow hosted the XXIII Congress of Pediatricians of Russia with international participation "Actual Problems of Pediatrics" with the I Conference on Social Pediatrics. As part of the congress, the symposium "Protect yourself when helping the patient! What every pediatrician needs to know?" was held. P.G. Gabay (lawyer, senior lecturer of the Department of Public Health Organization, Academy of Postgraduate Education, Federal Research and Clinical Center of the Federal Medical Biological Agency) in his report discussed the legal aspects of the doctor’s work, including the problem of prescribing off-label medicinal products and the problem of obtaining informed voluntary consent. Professor E. Yu. Radtsig reviewed current evidence-based methods to the treatment of ENT diseases in children. Professor A.S. Dukhanin presented a report on the comparison of the original and reproduced framycetin-based products.

Keywords: off-label, topical antibiotic, framycetin, rhinopharyngitis, adenoiditis, sinusitis, original product, generic, otitis, rifamycin.

For citation: Gabai P.G., Radtsig E.Yu., Dukhanin A.S. Protect yourself when helping the patient! What every pediatrician needs to know? (post-release). RMJ. 2021;4:26–30.