Critical care triaging in the shadow of COVID-19: Ethics considerations

JA Singh, K Moodley - South African Medical Journal, 2020 - journals.co.za
Since the World Health Organization declared coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) a
Public Health Emergency of International Concern, COVID-19 infection and the associated …

COVID-19 and unilateral withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments: tragedy in crisis, and lessons for everyday medicine

BW Frush, JM Turnbull - Chest, 2021 - journal.chestnet.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced ethical questions that once served as mere thought
experiments to be considered with newfound urgency. The unprecedented strain on our …

Triage during the COVID-19 epidemic in Spain: better and worse ethical arguments

B Herreros, P Gella, DR de Asua - Journal of medical ethics, 2020 - jme.bmj.com
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 …

Critical care triage during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa: A constitutional imperative!

BM Morrow, PD Gopalan, I Joubert, F Paruk, A Pope - 2020 - journals.co.za
Triage and rationing of scarce intensive care unit (ICU) resources are an unavoidable
necessity. In routine circumstances, ICU triage is premised on the best interests of an …

Treading lightly in a pandemic:# Zentensivist reflections on COVID-19

MT Siuba, S Dugar, K Shekar - Chest, 2020 - journal.chestnet.org
Facing an unprecedented pandemic, intensive care clinicians feel obligated to intervene to
prevent, modulate, or reverse coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and to avert death …

[HTML][HTML] Critical care during a pandemic—Are we prepared for the ethical dilemma?

S Schnaubelt, M Krammel, P Sulzgruber - Journal of Critical Care, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The need of evidence-based medicine characterized by skepticism, thoughtfulness,
responsiveness and clinical agility in daily practice during the present coronavirus disease …

COVID-19 and beyond: the ethical challenges of resetting health services during and after public health emergencies

P Baines, H Draper, A Chiumento, S Fovargue… - Journal of Medical …, 2020 - jme.bmj.com
COVID-19 continues to dominate 2020 and is likely to be a feature of our lives for some time
to come. Given this, how should health systems respond ethically to the persistent …

Rationing Health Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Imple-menting Ethical Triage

JF Childress - Medicine and Ethics in Times of Corona, 2021 - books.google.com
This paper critically examines current debates in the US about rationing scarce medical
resources in the COVID-19 pandemic to address current and anticipated shortages of …

[HTML][HTML] Deciding the criteria is not enough: moral issues to consider for a fair allocation of scarce ICU resources

D Battisti, M Picozzi - Philosophies, 2022 - mdpi.com
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, practitioners had to make tragic
decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources in the ICU. The Italian debate has …

[HTML][HTML] The COVID-19 era: Ethics in times of crisis

FM Gamboa-Antiñolo - Revista clinica espanola, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Spain, like other nations, has been overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic. It has placed
a massive burden on the health system, leading to a mismatch between the population's …