Author: Goss, Adeline L.; Chiong, Winston; Hemphill, J. Claude
Title: Neurologists' Duties in Planning for Triage of Critical Care Resources during the COVIDâ€19 Pandemic Cord-id: 4uroq7md Document date: 2020_8_4
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Snippet: This article examines whether factors like functional status or quality of life ought to be considered in state and hospital protocols that would allocate ventilators and other critical care resources in a crisis like the coronavirus pandemic, and provides recommendations to neurologists reviewing these protocols at their institutions. It is argued that unlike in clinical decision-making for individual patients, scarce resource allocation protocols ought to maximize survival across a population,
Document: This article examines whether factors like functional status or quality of life ought to be considered in state and hospital protocols that would allocate ventilators and other critical care resources in a crisis like the coronavirus pandemic, and provides recommendations to neurologists reviewing these protocols at their institutions. It is argued that unlike in clinical decision-making for individual patients, scarce resource allocation protocols ought to maximize survival across a population, without consideration of patients' functional status or quality of life. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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