"ICU triage protocol could be days away, warns nurses' association"
"Antonella Artuso
Publishing date:
Apr 20, 2021 • April 20, 2021 "
"...“I have already heard directly from nurses that blame themselves because a patient died, ‘because if I could have been more with the patient maybe I would have saved him.’ Just picture when this becomes worse and worse and worse.”
An intensive care triage protocol — a guide for health-care professionals trying to decide which patients can access an ICU bed in a shortage — could be in effect as early as this weekend, Grinspun cautioned.
Hospitals are doubling and tripling the usual number of patients handled by intensive care nurses.
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