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cord-312614-63qzissw	Latham, Stephen R.	Avoiding Ineffective End‐of‐Life Care: A Lesson from Triage?	2020-06-29		.txt	text/plain	1163	68	63	Ethicists and physicians all over the world have been working on triage protocols to plan for the possibility that the Covid‐19 pandemic will result in shortages of intensive care unit beds, ventilators, blood products, or medications. In reflecting on those protocols, many health care workers have noticed that, outside the pandemic shortage situation, we routinely supply patients in the ICU with invasive and painful care that will not help the patients survive even their hospitalization. It's enough to be confident that some should be and that, when the triage policy is implemented, some severely ill Covid-19 patients with comorbidities will be denied intensive care unit beds or access to ventilation. In other words, the minimalist triage policy has teethsaves resources and lives-only if the regular practice of hospitals outside pandemic emergency is to offer intensive and invasive treatment to patients who, in the judgment of their treating physicians, will not survive that treatment.	./cache/cord-312614-63qzissw.txt	./txt/cord-312614-63qzissw.txt