EXCLUSIVE: Intensive care doctors in NSW have been issued new guidelines outlining the “ethical challenges” they could face if forced to limit lifesaving ventilators to Covid-19 patients “who are the most likely to survive”. samanthamaiden writes.
The new guidelines prepared by NSW Health have outlined the life and death decisions that could emerge and guidelines for doctors on how to triage cases based on the “probability of survival.”
“The process of triaging intensive care resources includes both the process of allocating resources and the process of withdrawal of resources, for all patients that may require intensive care during a respiratory pandemic.” Despite NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian predicting there was capacity to cope with the surge, the ICU doctor who spoke to“If something keeps going up, without stopping, it’s going to overwhelm any system in the world. Queensland is looking at whether they can free up staff to send down, they don’t think it’s going to go well in New South Wales,” he said.
There were 173,913 COVID-19 tests reported to 8pm last night, compared with the previous dayâs total of 130,027.ICU staff prepare a Covid patient for transfer. Picture: Kate Geraghty
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