All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 May Allocation of scarce healthcare resources raises confronting ethical issues Allocation of scarce healthcare resources raises confronting ethical issues 25/05/2020 | 4 MINS A researcher from LIT has highlighted the ethical choices faced by healthcare professionals as they decide who is allocated scarce life-saving medical resources during the COVID-19 crisis. The experience of COVID-19 has revealed an under-supply of key medical and protective equipment in even the most advanced economies. But the prospect of having to make the sort of life and death decisions around the administration of life-saving treatment for this virus goes to the heart of medical ethics and the core duties of health professionals. When the global pandemic produced scenes of exhausted healthcare workers and the shocking number of daily deaths, one of the more disturbing reports was evidence from doctors having to choose who would receive ventilation treatment. Ventilation is a life-saving treatment that facilitates or even replaces respiratory function, where
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 May Allocation of scarce healthcare resources raises confronting ethical issues Allocation of scarce healthcare resources raises confronting ethical issues 25/05/2020 | 4 MINS A researcher from LIT has highlighted the ethical choices faced by healthcare professionals as they decide who is allocated scarce life-saving medical resources during the COVID-19 crisis.
The experience of COVID-19 has revealed an under-supply of key medical and protective equipment in even the most advanced economies.
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But the prospect of having to make the sort of life and death decisions around the administration of life-saving treatment for this virus goes to the heart of medical ethics and the core duties of health professionals.
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