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Who should MDs let die in a pandemic? Report offers answers
AP ^ | 05/04/08 | Lindsey Tanner

Posted on 04/26/2009 12:14:37 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3

CHICAGO – Doctors know some patients needing lifesaving care won't get it in a flu pandemic or other disaster. The gut-wrenching dilemma will be deciding who to let die. Now, an influential group of physicians has drafted a grimly specific list of recommendations for which patients wouldn't be treated. They include the very elderly, seriously hurt trauma victims, severely burned patients and those with severe dementia.

The suggested list was compiled by a task force whose members come from prestigious universities, medical groups, the military and government agencies. They include the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services.

The proposed guidelines are designed to be a blueprint for hospitals “so that everybody will be thinking in the same way” when pandemic flu or another widespread health care disaster hits, said Dr. Asha Devereaux. She is a critical care specialist in San Diego and lead writer of the task force report.

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wonder if smokers are on the list? :)
1 posted on 04/26/2009 12:14:37 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3
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To prepare, hospitals should designate a triage team with the Godlike task of deciding who will and who won’t get lifesaving care, the task force wrote. Those out of luck are the people at high risk of death and a slim chance of long-term survival. But the recommendations get much more specific, and include:

People older than 85.

Those with severe trauma, which could include critical injuries from car crashes and shootings.

Severely burned patients older than 60.

Those with severe mental impairment, which could include advanced Alzheimer’s disease.

Those with a severe chronic disease, such as advanced heart failure, lung disease or poorly controlled diabetes.


2 posted on 04/26/2009 12:15:36 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Ugly people.


3 posted on 04/26/2009 12:18:21 AM PDT by SIDENET ("You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.")
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To: TornadoAlley3
"those with severe dementia"

Obama voters.

4 posted on 04/26/2009 12:20:12 AM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: TornadoAlley3
So basically all Dems.
5 posted on 04/26/2009 12:21:14 AM PDT by MaxMax (America's population is 304-Million. Obama must punish America for the other 4.7 Billion)
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To: TornadoAlley3

4 L8er


6 posted on 04/26/2009 12:22:38 AM PDT by Blogger (It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins. - Ben Franklin)
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To: TornadoAlley3
I think I will refrain from posting my feelings about this article.

All I'm going to say is that if these people think there ivory tower will protect them from the "flu" they may be right. However, there is plenty else they should be worried about.
7 posted on 04/26/2009 12:22:43 AM PDT by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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To: ChicagahAl
Obama voters.

Some of them are dead already, especially in Illinois.

8 posted on 04/26/2009 12:22:48 AM PDT by SIDENET ("You knew the job was dangerous when you took it, Fred.")
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To: TornadoAlley3

This will be an everyday occurrence under socialized medicine.


9 posted on 04/26/2009 12:23:56 AM PDT by rdl6989
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To: SIDENET

Triaging patients in this sort of situation is to ensure that those likeliest to survive get treated. The problem with burn patients is that their treatment makes heavy use of medical resources, and they are unlikely to survive in any case if severely burned.

Triage techniques of this sort are used by the military and in any disaster situation. It isn’t pretty, but plans need to be made.


10 posted on 04/26/2009 12:24:38 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: SIDENET

Take away the adjectives and your probably closer to the truth:

“Those with trauma, ... burned patients ... mental impairment, ... Alzheimer’s disease... disease, such as advanced heart failure, lung disease or ... diabetes.”


11 posted on 04/26/2009 12:25:17 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: TornadoAlley3

“Did you vote for Obama??” is their only question


12 posted on 04/26/2009 12:25:37 AM PDT by GeronL (TYRANNY SENTINEL. http://tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com LIBERTY FICTION at libertyfic.proboards.com)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Politicians, Illegal Immigrants, Prisoners, and Federal Employees not directly employed by a defense agency or FBI/CIA/BP. In that order.


13 posted on 04/26/2009 12:25:40 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla

>Triage techniques of this sort are used by the military and in any disaster situation. It isn’t pretty, but plans need to be made.

This is very true.


14 posted on 04/26/2009 12:27:29 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Whatever happened to saving lives—as many as possible? This reminds me of the “Values Clarification” stuff that has been in schol; i.e. if you have to throw someone over from a lifeboat, who would you toss and why?


15 posted on 04/26/2009 12:31:20 AM PDT by Freedom56v2 (Wonder if our founding fathers would even recognize the USA?!)
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To: TornadoAlley3
..... triage society for those that will help sustain the country...

So I guess democrats, liberals and all the nipple people are S.O.L.

16 posted on 04/26/2009 12:33:59 AM PDT by erman (Outside of a dog, a book is man's best companion. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.)
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To: All

TRIAGE

Quote - Snippet:

http://dictionary.reference.com/dic?q=triage&search=search

–noun
1. the process of sorting victims, as of a battle or disaster, to determine medical priority in order to increase the number of survivors.
2. the determination of priorities for action in an emergency.
–adjective
3. of, pertaining to, or performing the task of triage: a triage officer.
–verb (used with object)
4. to act on or in by triage: to triage a crisis.
Origin:
1925–30; < F: sorting, equiv. to tri(er) to sort (see try ) + -age -age


17 posted on 04/26/2009 12:33:59 AM PDT by Cindy
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To: randomhero97

Ditto to what you didn’t say.


18 posted on 04/26/2009 12:34:24 AM PDT by Gator113 (I'm a PROUD RIGHT WING EXTREMIST.... Obama has failed, IMPEACH Obama NOW....)
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To: TornadoAlley3
Basic Rule of Life: Always, always be highly suspicious of a self appointed "task force whose members come from prestigious universities, medical groups, the military and government agencies."

Obama, Pelosi, and the rest of the democrats are drooling and can't wait to start murdering the frail, the infirm, and the defenseless.


19 posted on 04/26/2009 12:41:24 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (Chains you can believe in.)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Buy some Obama campaign buttons off of eBay to make sure you get “cut” privileges in the triage line.


20 posted on 04/26/2009 12:41:50 AM PDT by IDRATHERNOT
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