COVID-19: Updates in Bioethics

Resource Centers:

• Ethics Resources on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) – The Hastings Center
• COVID-19 Ethics Resource Center – AMA Journal of Ethics

Guidelines:

• AGS Position Statement: Resource Allocation Strategies and Age‐Related Considerations in the COVID‐19 Era and Beyond – Journal of the American Geriatrics Society AND News Release: Position statement addresses difficult issue: allocating scare resources in COVID-19 era – American Geriatrics Society
• Allocation of Scarce Critical Care Resources During a Public Health Emergency – University of Pittsburg AND Commentary: A system to allocate scarce ventilators and ICU beds gains traction for not counting any group out – STAT (04/2020)
• Ethical guidance published for frontline staff dealing with pandemic – Royal College of Physicians (04/2020)
• Pandemic palliative care: beyond ventilators and saving lives – Canadian Medical Association Journal AND Commentary: A COVID-19 palliative care pandemic plan: An essential tool – Canadian Medical Association Journal (04/2020)

Videos:

• Coronavirus (COVID-19) Update: Fairly Rationing ICU Care – JAMA (03/2020)

Selected Articles:

• NEW – Editorial: Ethical road map through the covid-19 pandemic – The BMJ (05/2020)
• An Ethical Framework for Allocating Scarce Inpatient Medications for COVID-19 in the US – JAMA (05/2020)
• Ethics of reallocating ventilators in the covid-19 pandemic – The BMJ (05/2020)
• Allocating Scarce Resources and Triaging Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic – Journal of the American College of Cardiology AND Commentary: COVID-19 Triage, Allocation Decisions Must Be Guided by Ethical Principles and Values – American College of Cardiology (05/2020)
• Privileges and Immunity Certification During the COVID-19 Pandemic – JAMA AND Related article: The Ethics of COVID-19 Immunity-Based Licenses (“Immunity Passports”) – JAMA
• CPR in the Covid-19 Era — An Ethical Framework – New England Journal of Medicine (05/2020)
• Ethics guidelines on COVID-19 triage—an emerging international consensus – Critical Care (05/2020)
• Ethics of controlled human infection to study COVID-19 – Science (05/2020)
• The Equitable Distribution of COVID-19 Therapeutics and Vaccines – JAMA (05/2020)
• Critical Conversations: Say This, Not That – CHEST (05/2020)
• Sure, The Velociraptors Are Still on The Loose, But That’s No Reason Not to Reopen Jurassic Park – McSweeney’s (05/2020)
• Universal Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders, Social Worth, and Life-Years: Opposing Discriminatory Approaches to the Allocation of Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Other Health System Catastrophes – Annals of Internal Medicine (04/2020)
• Ventilator Triage Policies During the COVID-19 Pandemic at U.S. Hospitals Associated With Members of the Association of Bioethics Program Directors – Annals of Internal Medicine (04/2020)
• COVID-19 Ethics and Research – Mayo Clinic Proceedings (04/2020)
• Is it wrong to prioritise younger patients with covid-19? – The BMJ AND Commentary: Should age be a prioritizing factor in deciding who gets treated for COVID-19? – News Medical (04/2020)
• Ethics in the Time of Coronavirus: Recommendations in the COVID-19 Pandemic – Journal of the American College of Surgeons (04/2020)
• Ethical Rationing of Personal Protective Equipment to Minimize Moral Residue During the COVID-19 Pandemic – Journal of the American College of Surgeons (04/2020)
• If the world fails to protect the economy, COVID-19 will damage health not just now but also in the future – Nature Medicine (via @EricTopol see Tweet) (04/2020)
• Editorial: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation after Hospital Admission with Covid-19 – The BMJ (04/2020)
• COVID-19 and experiences of moral injury in front-line key workers – Occupational Medicine (04/2020)
• Should we give priority care to healthcare workers in the covid-19 pandemic? – The BMJ Opinion (04/2020)
• Ethical considerations in the allocation of critical care resources when capacity is overwhelmed – Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine (03/2020)
• The Importance of Addressing Advance Care Planning and Decisions About Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders During Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) – JAMA (03/2020)
• The Toughest Triage — Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic – New England Journal of Medicine (03/2020)
• Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19 – New England Journal of Medicine AND Commentary: Life, or death? Experts guide pandemic medical equipment decisions – CIDRAP (03/2020)

News & Perspectives:

• Restarting America Means People Will Die. So When Do We Do It? – The New York Times (04/2020)
• Who gets a ventilator? New gut-wrenching state guidelines issued on rationing equipment – Boston Globe (04/2020)
• Doctors Need Room to Make the Wrenching Decisions They Face – The New York Times (04/2020)
• If it comes to rationing, I shouldn’t have to be the one deciding who should live and who should die – STAT (04/2020)
• Patient Has Virus and Serious Cancer. Should Doctors Withhold Ventilator? – The New York Times (04/2020)
• COVID Ethics: Should clinicians see patients without appropriate PPE? – First10EM (03/2020)
• Who Should Be Saved First? Experts Offer Ethical Guidance – The New York Times (03/2020)
• ICU doctors now face the toughest decisions they will ever have to make – The Guardian (03/2020)
• ‘Is Ordering Takeout Unethical?’ A Medical Ethicist Answers Some of the Most Common Moral Questions Around Coronavirus – TIME
• What if Two COVID-19 Victims Need Ventilators and Just One Is Available? – Scientific American

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