The Toughest Triage — Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic

2020730 citationsJournal Articlebronze Open Access

Authors

Robert D. Truog · Boston Children's Hospital

Abstract

The Toughest Triage Of all the medical care that will have to be rationed during the Covid-19 pandemic, the most problematic will be mechanical ventilation. One strategy for avoiding debilitating d...

Topics & Keywords

Disaster Response and Management Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units Emergency and Acute Care Studies

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Good health and well-being

Publication Details

Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 382, Issue 21, pp. 1973-1975

DOI: 10.1056/nejmp2005689

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