Medical Ethics
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| Originally published | 1997 |
| Authors | Grant Gillett |
| D. Gareth Jones | |
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| ID | 2058985 |
About Medical Ethics
Medical Ethics is a practical introduction to the ethical questions that doctors and other health professionals are likely to encounter during their working lives. . . .
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Coronavirus: Doctors face agony of life-death-decisions
... Dr John Chisholm, Chairman of the BMA s Medical Ethics Committee, said: The headlines are clear: a tsunami of the Covid-19 patient moving inexorably in the direction of the London hospitals, and then in the direction of the rest of the UK...
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Coronavirus: Doctors face agony of life-death-decisions
Doctors say that when the Corona-Virus-spreading pandemic, they will be faced "agonizing choices" about who is a potentially life-saving treatments.
has issued ethical guidelines for the work on The Front .
The Professional Association, says it urgently needs to times a public discussion of the Problem in these "unprecedented".
It warns that despite "heroic efforts" to increase the capacity of the NHS can be overwhelmed.
The government has ordered thousands of fans to ease the pressure on hospitals caused by the coronavirus crisis.
This, together with the specialists of the life-support machine called ECMO (Extra-Corporeal membrane oxygenation), and is needed for the sickest patients to breathing help and to rescue, if possible, life.
Decide who is what caregets the Doctors have to make difficult decisions about the treatment in daily practice, however, the coronavirus outbreak means that you have to life-death decisions, warns often more, and sometimes based on the capacity rather than the necessity of the BMA.
The guidelines say:
If the resources are scarce and decisions are being made about who to treat, physicians are asked to consider:
The BMA, says managing Director and senior doctors is set to "threshold values" for admission to an intensive care unit - the places where most of the sick, the treatment with fans.
By itself, the infection with the coronavirus should not guarantee priority for treatment, they say.
patients to die in their "probability", or require longer periods of intensive support, exceeds The Set threshold value would not be considered for intensive treatment. You should still have other forms of medical care, says the Council.
Dr John Chisholm, Chairman of the BMA's Medical Ethics Committee, said: "The headlines are clear: a "tsunami" of the Covid-19 patient moving inexorably in the direction of the London hospitals, And Then in the direction of the rest of the UK.
"in Spite of heroic efforts to increase the Supply and reduce the demand - There is a point where the pandemic is just beds overwhelm intensive care, ventilators, ECMO-life support.
"How do all of the work on this knowledge, the leadership, necessary as it is, does not preclude The Need for these tremendously difficult ethical questions.
"instructions How To proceed. It can't stop the decisions as brutal or relieve decision-makers of their moral distress. "
He added: "with a view to The Coming weeks, when tough decisions are necessary, we know that you will be challenged. It is anger and pain.
"people would have received under normal circumstances of strenuous treatment, and palliation, in order to benefit in favor of those with greater probability. No one wants to make these decisions, but if the resources are overwhelmed, these decisions must be made. "
medical ethicist and barrister Daniel Sokol, said: "While the guide to The Ethical issues and dilemmas raise that doctors will face, it will leave a few confused and perhaps frustrated by how the principles in practice.
"The guidance acknowledges that a challenge may be that a large number of people require intensive care are likely to be equally suitable.
"But it does not give a clear answer to the question of how clinicians should choose between the large group. "
healthcare, coronavirus pandemic, nhs, ventilators
Source of news: bbc.com
