Allocating medical resources during a mass casualty emergency: sometimes, ‘it’s OK to wait.’

The severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19), pandemic has overwhelmed healthcare systems the-world-over, turning the situation into a ‘mass casualty emergency’ (MCE). Ideally, medical resources – material and human – would be unlimited. But as the current pandemic has made evident, such thinking is utopian – shortages and rationing are here.(1) As such, healthcare providers have a duty to prepare to make critical allocat ion choices with life-and-death consequences.(1,2)
Source: Pediatric Neurology - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Opinion Paper Source Type: research