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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Case Report
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
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author Wehrfritz, Andreas
Schmidt, Joachim
Bremer, Frank
Lang, Anne‐Katharina
Welzer, Jacob
Castellanos, Ixchel
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spelling pubmed-103543522023-07-20 Ethical conflicts associated with COVID‐19 pandemic, triage and frailty—unexpected positive disease progression in a 90‐year‐old patient: A case report Wehrfritz, Andreas Schmidt, Joachim Bremer, Frank Lang, Anne‐Katharina Welzer, Jacob Castellanos, Ixchel Clin Case Rep 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. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10354352/ /pubmed/37476601 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7710 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Wehrfritz, Andreas
Schmidt, Joachim
Bremer, Frank
Lang, Anne‐Katharina
Welzer, Jacob
Castellanos, Ixchel
Ethical conflicts associated with COVID‐19 pandemic, triage and frailty—unexpected positive disease progression in a 90‐year‐old patient: A case report
title Ethical conflicts associated with COVID‐19 pandemic, triage and frailty—unexpected positive disease progression in a 90‐year‐old patient: A case report
title_full Ethical conflicts associated with COVID‐19 pandemic, triage and frailty—unexpected positive disease progression in a 90‐year‐old patient: A case report
title_fullStr Ethical conflicts associated with COVID‐19 pandemic, triage and frailty—unexpected positive disease progression in a 90‐year‐old patient: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Ethical conflicts associated with COVID‐19 pandemic, triage and frailty—unexpected positive disease progression in a 90‐year‐old patient: A case report
title_short Ethical conflicts associated with COVID‐19 pandemic, triage and frailty—unexpected positive disease progression in a 90‐year‐old patient: A case report
title_sort ethical conflicts associated with covid‐19 pandemic, triage and frailty—unexpected positive disease progression in a 90‐year‐old patient: a case report
topic Case Report
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7710
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