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 …

In March 2020, the rapid increase in severe COVID‐19 cases overwhelmed the healthcare
systems in several European countries. The capacities for artificial ventilation in intensive …

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 …

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 …

The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has caused shortages of life-sustaining medical
resources, and future waves of the virus may cause further scarcity. The Yale New Haven …

The allocation of scarce medical resources during the COVID-19 pandemic will present
healthcare providers and clinicians with a host of difficult bioethical and human rights …

The COVID-19 pandemic has generated an imbalance between the clinical needs of the
population and the effective availability of advanced life support (ALS) resources. Triage …

Abstract On March 11, 2020 the World Health Organization classified COVID‐19, caused by
Sars‐CoV‐2, as a pandemic. Although not much was known about the new virus, the first …

Aims: One of the major ethical challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic comes in the
form of fair triage decisions for critically ill patients in situations where life-saving resources …