Allocating Medical Resources During a Mass Casualty Emergency: Sometimes It Is OK to Wait

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