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Ethical conflicts associated with COVID‐19 pandemic, triage and frailty—unexpected positive disease progression in a 90‐year‐old patient: A case report

During the COVID 19 pandemic, advanced age, scoring systems, and a shortage of ICU beds were used as cut‐offs for ICU admission. This case report describes the epicrisis of an elderly patient who was almost mistakenly not treated in an ICU.

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Autores principales: Wehrfritz, Andreas, Schmidt, Joachim, Bremer, Frank, Lang, Anne‐Katharina, Welzer, Jacob, Castellanos, Ixchel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10354352/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37476601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7710