This tool is used in some (not all, yet) areas to decide who gets access to intensive ITU treatment, and who gets palliative care. It's a small insight into a grim near future: hospitals will be...
This tool is used in some (not all, yet) areas to decide who gets access to intensive ITU treatment, and who gets palliative care. It's a small insight into a grim near future: hospitals will be overwhelmed with patients and they have to decide to withold treatment from some. This isn't allowing those patients to die -- they're almost certainly going to die if they get covid-19, but still.
This isn't an insight to the grim near future, this is an insight to the present and what has been in place for ages. The public doesn't like/want to know that there's any possibility that they...
It's a small insight into a grim near future: hospitals will be overwhelmed with patients and they have to decide to withold treatment from some.
This isn't an insight to the grim near future, this is an insight to the present and what has been in place for ages. The public doesn't like/want to know that there's any possibility that they won't get every measure all the time. Hospital/system level triage is on the books for every hospital/system and has been for decades.
This tool is used in some (not all, yet) areas to decide who gets access to intensive ITU treatment, and who gets palliative care. It's a small insight into a grim near future: hospitals will be overwhelmed with patients and they have to decide to withold treatment from some. This isn't allowing those patients to die -- they're almost certainly going to die if they get covid-19, but still.
NHS England/Improvement[1] had to issue a clarification around the frailty score to tell NHS organisations not to use this frailty score for autistic people. That's a worrying oversight. https://www.england.nhs.uk/coronavirus/wp-content/uploads/sites/52/2020/04/C0166-Letter-DNACPR.pdf
This isn't an insight to the grim near future, this is an insight to the present and what has been in place for ages. The public doesn't like/want to know that there's any possibility that they won't get every measure all the time. Hospital/system level triage is on the books for every hospital/system and has been for decades.