In today's pandemic, many countries have experienced shortages of medical resources and
many healthcare providers have often been faced with dramatic decisions about how to …

A public health emergency, as the COVID-19 pandemic, may lead to shortages of potentially
life-saving treatments. In this situation, it is necessary, justifiable and proportionate to have …

In this paper, we analyse the most important documents establishing the criteria for the
treatment and exclusion of COVID-19 patients, especially in regard to the giving of …

We report here an emerging dispute in Italy concerning triage criteria for critically ill covid-19
patients, and how best to support doctors having to make difficult decisions in a context of …

At the time of writing, countries across the globe are “shutting down” in response to the
spread of COVID19. Breathless local reporting of every single newly identified COVID19 …

The anthrax mailings following the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States led to
fears that victims of bioterrorism could overwhelm hospitals. The federal government …

The COVID-19 epidemic has highlighted or revealed real ethical issues, revealing the limits
of knowledge, the limits of life, the limits of our health care system, the limits of our society …

The ever-debated question of triage and allocating the life-saving ventilator during the
COVID-19 pandemic has been repeatedly raised and challenged within the ethical …

The COVID-19 virus is severely testing the Italian healthcare system, as the requests for
intensive treatment are greater than the real capacity of the system to receive patients. Given …

Ethical issues around triage have been at the forefront of debates during the Covid‐19
pandemic. This essay compares both discussion and guidelines around triage and the …