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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: Fairly Rationing ICU Care

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To understand ethical challenges in rationing ventilators and critical care beds.
0.5 Credit CME
JAMA
March 30, 2020 Audio Author Interview 34 min 16 sec

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Hospitals need ways to make rational, fair decisions about who gets ICU beds and ventilators if COVID-19 patients overwhelm capacity. Douglas B. White, MD, MAS, Director of the Program on Ethics and Decision Making in Critical Illness at the University of Pittsburgh, discusses a framework for those decisions and a guideline he helped develop for allocation of scarce resources in public health emergencies.

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