Posted on 04/02/2020 9:33:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Coronavirus patients may have life-saving treatment withdrawn if others with the virus are more likely to survive, according to new guidance issued to UK doctors.
Health workers could be forced to make "grave decisions" should hospitals become overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, the latest advice from the British Medical Association (BMA) states.
The document warns that decisions around rationing scarce resources, such as ventilators, could determine whether large numbers of patients will receive life-saving treatment or not.
The deaths of another 563 coronavirus patients in the UK were announced on Wednesday, the country's biggest daily increase since the outbreak began.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has admitted testing for the virus needs to "massively ramp up" after criticism of the government's approach to it.
According to the new BMA guidance, doctors will face decisions "which mean some patients may be denied intensive forms of treatment that they would have received outside a pandemic".
"Health professionals may be obliged to withdraw treatment from some patients to enable treatment of other patients with a higher survival probability," the document states.
"This may involve withdrawing treatment from an individual who is stable or even improving but whose objective assessment indicates a worse prognosis than another patient who requires the same resource."
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Oh the joys of universal healthcare, socialized medicine and death panels.
The most frequently used words in articles about COVID-19?
COULD
MAY
MIGHT
POSSIBLY
Shouldn’t they also give them a fatal injection so they don’t suffer?
Doom. Gloom. “ could be “. Etc
I’m hearing anecdotal evidence that ventilators are not the magic bullet people have been led to believe.
https://www.physiciansweekly.com/mortality-rate-of-covid-19-patients-on-ventilators/
NHS: refusing treatment is what we do best. Unless your name starts with some noble title - then you go in the non-peasants door to use our gold plated ventilators and blue blood transfusors.
“May” being the operative word. This means nothing.
It was creepy as hell.
I’m glad you captioned that GIF because otherwise I would have wondered WTF am I looking at! ;-)
“May” being the operative word. This means nothing.
It “sounds” scary, but how close to actually being needed, is it?
I will say, it sounds even uglier than “triage”.
They are not a magic bullet. They are a desperate last resort to keep people alive who 100% of will die without it.
Little Eichmanns
That was truly like something out of North Korea. As I watched all I could think was that they are so far gone, they don’t even realize how that looked to sane parts of the world.
NOBODY, anywhere strives to obtain British medical care, or food.
It was obviously meant to target Americans during the debate over ObamaCare, they admitted as much.
So if you are over 60 or suffer from diabetes, hypertension, a heart condition or cancer or have a compromised immune system, you best not leave your house for the next 3 months.
I understand, however, is the public aware of the actual success rate. Has the media in all of their reporting on lack of ventilators ever stated the recovery rate when used. I’m all for the emergency use but wonder how many know the true stats.
Doesn’t that action make them more likely to die?
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