Rationing Life Saving Treatments During COVID Pandemics: A Podcast with Doug White and James Frank

GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Mar 19, 2020 · 50m

You are caring for two adults with COVID-19. One who is a previously healthy 70 year old. One is 55 with multiple medical comorbidities. Both are now requiring mechanical ventilation, but there is only one ventilator left in the hospital and all attempts to transfer the patients to another hospital for care have failed. Which patient would you give the life saving treatment to and why? On today's podcast with talk with Doug White, Professor of Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, and James Frank, Professor of Medicine and fellowship director for the UCSF Pulmonary and…