The Toughest Triage - Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic

N Engl J Med. 2020 May 21;382(21):1973-1975. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2005689. Epub 2020 Mar 23.

Authors

Robert D Truog¹, Christine Mitchell¹, George Q Daley¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Center for Bioethics (R.D.T., C.M.), the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (R.D.T., C.M.), the Office of the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine (G.Q.D.), Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital (R.D.T.) - both in Boston.

PMID: 32202721
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp2005689

No abstract available

MeSH terms

COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / therapy*
Ethics Committees, Clinical*
Health Care Rationing / ethics
Health Care Rationing / methods*
Humans
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / therapy*
Resource Allocation / ethics
Triage / ethics
Triage / methods*
United States / epidemiology
Ventilators, Mechanical / supply & distribution*
Withholding Treatment / ethics