Principled decisions and virtuous care: an ethical assessment of the SIAARTI Guidelines for allocating intensive care resources.
Age Factors
Bed Conversion
/ statistics & numerical data
Bed Occupancy
/ statistics & numerical data
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections
/ epidemiology
Critical Care
/ ethics
Health Care Rationing
/ ethics
Health Resources
/ supply & distribution
Health Services Needs and Demand
Humans
Intensive Care Units
/ statistics & numerical data
Italy
/ epidemiology
Life Expectancy
Moral Obligations
Palliative Care
/ ethics
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral
/ epidemiology
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Prognosis
Resource Allocation
/ ethics
SARS-CoV-2
Triage
/ ethics
Value of Life
Ventilators, Mechanical
/ supply & distribution
Journal
Minerva anestesiologica
ISSN: 1827-1596
Titre abrégé: Minerva Anestesiol
Pays: Italy
ID NLM: 0375272
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2020
08 2020
Historique:
pubmed:
29
5
2020
medline:
15
8
2020
entrez:
29
5
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
This article sets forth ethical principles for responding to extraordinary circumstances in which the demand for medical care threatens to overwhelm available resources, as in the COVID-19 pandemic. In light of these principles, the author then assesses the ethics of the SIAARTI guidelines for rationing ICU beds and ventilators under such circumstances.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32463212
pii: S0375-9393.20.14691-1
doi: 10.23736/S0375-9393.20.14691-1
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM