id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentences	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cord-293086-6282sb6b	Liddell, Kathleen	Who gets the ventilator? Important legal rights in a pandemic	2020-05-11		.txt	text/plain	5502	268	48	2 As a result, at present, the only central guidance comes from the 'COVID-19 Rapid Guideline' issued by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which recommends triaging admission to the ICU based on frailty assessments, but provides little concrete guidance on how to allocate or re-allocate ventilators once a patient is in the ICU. At present, the prognostic tools required to produce an effective decision support system (triage protocol) are lacking along with most of the infrastructure, processes, legal protections, and training for critical care triage.' 13 It is difficult to attribute relative probabilities of survival to patients, or to anticipate length of bed stay, with a novel disease like COVID-19. Thus, if ventilation is clinically indicated, it is doubtful that doctors can Current controversy unilaterally decide to withhold care on the grounds that a scarce resource would be more effectively used on future (anticipated) patients.	./cache/cord-293086-6282sb6b.txt	./txt/cord-293086-6282sb6b.txt