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Some hospitals resorted to crisis triage during the pandemic. A Colorado doctor says more should have.

The Colorado Sun

Oct 11, 2021
Outside Saint Joseph Hospital in Denver
Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH explains, If you are looking like you’re about to have to do triage, you should be implementing these strategies in advance. Not withholding services, but you should pull your triage team together in advance; you should be creating the load balancing mechanisms across systems. And that really has to be done at the state level. No single hospital has the capacity to do that. And the biggest ethical failure is if you’ve got a doctor in one hospital saying, “I’m sorry, I don’t have an ICU bed for you” and you end up having to die because you can’t get the intensive care that you need when there was an ICU bed available but it was six miles away at a different hospital.  Read article>>

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