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.
>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.
So my mother is dead. (older, disabled)
My son is dead. (diabetic)
My daughter is dead. (heart valve condition)
And I’m supposed to be OK with this?
Sorry, but I will fight to my last breath before I’ll surrender our most vulnerable to the government’s gentle ministrations.
We are NOT animals. We do NOT cull human beings. We fight for everyone, *especially* our weakest. Otherwise we’re no better than dogs.
Be a human being. Use your G-d given compassion.
If they are most likely to survive, why waste scarce resources on them?
Those eliminated from scarce resources: Those most likely to survive; those mostly likely to die.
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Yep.
And no it is not pretty.
“Triaging patients in this sort of situation is to ensure that those likeliest to survive get treated.”
I always thought triage meant who gets treated first, not who gets treated and who doesn’t. If the plan is to not treat certain people at all, it isn’t triage.