
Ep. 32 Ethics of COVID-19 Response
Bioethics on Air
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Triage Protocols and Exclusionary Criteria
There is an ethical way to do that. And we'll talk about some of those as we move forward so next question dealing with triage protocols has to do with exclusionary criteria for critical care treatment. What is what are we talking about there and what are some of the ethical challenges involved with establishing exclusionary criteria? Well as people developed these triage protocols they excluded some people from treatment especially acute and ICU treatment if they were above a certain age for example or maybe if they had certain deficits or illness or injury If they were suffering from Alzheimer's or something like that it would function to say if you have this characteristic then you will not be considered for some sort of life-sust
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