Crisis Level ICU Triage Is About Saving Lives

Charles L Sprung¹, Gavin M Joynt², Michael D Christian³, Robert D Truog^{4

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9}, Joseph L Nates⁹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Pain, Hadassah Medical Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.
² Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
³ London's Air Ambulance, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.
⁴ Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
⁶ Clinical Research/Epidemiology in Pneumonia and Sepsis, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR), Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red en Efermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain.
⁸ Clinical Research, CHU Nîmes, NÎmes, France.
⁹ Critical Care Department, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.

Comment

Charles L Sprung et al. Crit Care Med. 2021.

. 2021 Jan 1;49(1):e102-e103.

doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004671.

Charles L Sprung¹, Gavin M Joynt², Michael D Christian³, Robert D Truog^{4

5}, Jordi Rello^{1

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3

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9}, Joseph L Nates⁹

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care Medicine and Pain, Hadassah Medical Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.
² Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
³ London's Air Ambulance, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.
⁴ Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
⁵ Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA.
⁶ Clinical Research/Epidemiology in Pneumonia and Sepsis, Vall d'Hebron Institute of Research (VHIR), Barcelona, Spain.
⁷ Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red en Efermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain.
⁸ Clinical Research, CHU Nîmes, NÎmes, France.
⁹ Critical Care Department, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX.

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Zivot JB. Zivot JB. Crit Care Med. 2021 Jan 1;49(1):e104. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004720. Crit Care Med. 2021. PMID: 33337750 No abstract available.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 Triage Teams: Death by Numbers.
Zivot J. Zivot J. Crit Care Med. 2020 Aug;48(8):1241-1242. doi: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000004435. Crit Care Med. 2020. PMID: 32697500 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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