Question

Hospital President Jose Vasquez, in a virtual online call with journalists, a recording of which was reviewed by Forbes, said the hospital has been given extra personnel from the state and federal governments but still has insufficient resources, and is “establishing an ethics committee as well as a triage committee that is going to be in charge of reviewing each one of these cases that need hospitalization.” He said if a patient, particularly someone with a significant underlying medical condition, needs “mechanical ventilation to survive we have to start making a triage evaluation and [determine] who has a better chance to use, in a beneficial way, all of the resources versus who is a patient that because of chronic medical illness does not have the chance to survive.” Vasquez said some badly ill Covid-19 patients have been transferred to hospitals outside of the county, and in some cases outside of the state, a pattern he said is not sustainable and could lead to “those patients who most certainly do not have any hope of improving going ...thousands of miles away dying alone in a hospital.” Answer the following: Based on this situation if you were Jose Vasquez – what would you do? What options are available that may alleviate the situation? In Chapter 8 we learned about life and death issues, would any of those help in this situation? If so, which ones and how would they help?

Answer 1

Basically in all disaster like situation we choose the best option to save the life of a patient in this criteria we are considering the the priority for those who have the chance to survive will be treated in aggressive way and those who have less chance with the available resources that will be considered as the least priority

If I am in the position I will select the patient with chance of survival will be treated with ventilation and aggressive management and the patient who has literally survival rate is law will be considered as unable to save because of this availability of resources and will send this patients for peaceful death .this is a medical dilemma but unfortunately we always consider the resources and the need of the requirement when the need exeeding morethan available resources this situation be considered as the disaster situation and in that case you have to follow the the policy like who has the most chance of survival will be treated priority and those who have less server will rate will consider as least priority.