The corona pandemic has forced us to examine rules for allocating survival chances and
mortality risks when ICU beds and ventilators are not sufficient for all patients who need …

The advent of COVID-19 has been the occasion for a renewed interest in the principles
governing triage when the number of critically ill patients exceeds the healthcare …

The advent of COVID-19 has been the occasion for a renewed interest in the principles
governing triage when the number of critically ill patients exceeds the healthcare …

This paper provides a general framework for conceptualizing triage for intensive care unit
admissions in public health emergencies such as the COVID‐19 pandemic. It applies this …

In this analysis we discuss the change in criteria for triage of patients during three different
phases of a pandemic like COVID-19, seen from the critical care point of view. Availability of …

The novel COVID-19 pandemic has placed medical triage decision-making in the spotlight.
As life-saving ventilators become scarce, clinicians are being forced to allocate scarce …

Most ethics guidelines for distributing scarce medical resources during the coronavirus
pandemic seek to save the most lives and the most life‐years. A patient's prognosis is …

In a time of shortage of skilled staff, protective gear, ICU beds, respirators, dialysis, drugs,
and others,'triage'—a French word used mostly in wartime—aims at favoring the most likely …

The COVID-19 pandemic has overwhelmed healthcare systems in several countries and
has led to situations in which the number of critically ill patients has exceeded the number of …

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 …