The Toughest Triage — Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic

2020/03/23 by Robert D. Truog, Christine Mitchell, George Q. Daley · 3 citations
Health Professions · Medicine · #Disaster Response and Management #Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units #Emergency and Acute Care Studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.1056/nejmp2005689

openalex publication_date 2020/03/23 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

The Toughest Triage Of all the medical care that will have to be rationed during the Covid-19 pandemic, the most problematic will be mechanical ventilation. One strategy for avoiding debilitating d...

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