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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUtah's hospitals prepare to ration care as a record number of coronavirus patients flood their ICUs
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2020/10/25/with-coronavirus-cases/With new coronavirus cases shattering records on a daily basis, Utahs hospitals are expected to begin rationing care in a week or two.
Thats the prediction of Greg Bell, president of the Utah Hospital Association, who said administrators of the states hospitals confronted Gov. Gary Herbert on Thursday with a grim list: Criteria they propose doctors should use if they are forced to decide which patients can stay in overcrowded intensive care units.
Under the criteria, which would require Herberts approval, patients who are getting worse despite receiving intensive care would be moved out first. In the event that two patients' conditions are equal, the young get priority over the old, since older patients are more likely to die.
We told him, It looks like were going to have to request those be activated if this trend continues," Bell recounted, 'and we see no reason why it wont.'"
Thats the prediction of Greg Bell, president of the Utah Hospital Association, who said administrators of the states hospitals confronted Gov. Gary Herbert on Thursday with a grim list: Criteria they propose doctors should use if they are forced to decide which patients can stay in overcrowded intensive care units.
Under the criteria, which would require Herberts approval, patients who are getting worse despite receiving intensive care would be moved out first. In the event that two patients' conditions are equal, the young get priority over the old, since older patients are more likely to die.
We told him, It looks like were going to have to request those be activated if this trend continues," Bell recounted, 'and we see no reason why it wont.'"
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Utah's hospitals prepare to ration care as a record number of coronavirus patients flood their ICUs (Original Post)
steve2470
Oct 2020
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RKP5637
(67,104 posts)1. The Trump effect (virus), just some little sniffles, most people just go on to work. n/t
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)2. K&R!
yonder
(9,663 posts)3. Young before old is bad enough...
...but wealthy before anyone else would be uglier yet.
RainCaster
(10,868 posts)4. It's going to magically disappear
So says the Obese Orangutan.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)5. Trump's death panels