Ethicists and physicians all over the world have been working on triage protocols to plan for
the possibility that the Covid‐19 pandemic will result in shortages of intensive care unit …

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 …

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 …

Almost two years after the first official report from World Health Organization (WHO), the
SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (covid-19) outreached 200 mln of cases around the world with an …

An ethically sound framework for health care during public health emergencies must
balance the patientcentered duty of care—the focus of clinical ethics under normal …

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 …

Killing someone directly is never morally right, but sometimes, choosing someone to save
and leaving another to die is. The moral philosophy, law, and medical ethics have all …

After the spectacular failure to apply acceptable triage methods to evacuate patients from a
flooded Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina, preparedness planning was intensified …

During the COVID‐19 pandemic, national triage guidelines were developed to address the
anticipated shortage of life‐saving resources, should ICU capacities be overloaded …

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, mounting demand overwhelmed critical care surge
capacities, triggering implementation of triage protocols to determine ventilator allocation …