Ethical conflicts associated with COVID‐19 pandemic, triage and frailty—unexpected positive disease progression in a <scp>90‐year‐old</scp> patient: A case report-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

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

Published:2023-07 Issue:7 Volume:11 Page:
ISSN:2050-0904
Container-title:Clinical Case Reports
language:en
Short-container-title:Clinical Case Reports

Author:

Wehrfritz Andreas¹^ORCID,Schmidt Joachim¹,Bremer Frank¹,Lang Anne‐Katharina¹,Welzer Jacob²,Castellanos Ixchel¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Anaesthesiology University hospital of Erlangen, Faculty of Medicine, Friedrich‐Alexander‐University Erlangen Erlangen Germany

2. Department of Anaesthesiology Klinikum Fuerth Fuerth Germany

Abstract

Key Clinical MessageDuring 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.

Funder

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ccr3.7710

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