Admission criteria and management of critical care patients in a pandemic context: position of the Ethics Commission of the French Intensive Care Society, update of April 2021

Abstract Intensive care unit professionals have experience in critical care and its proportionality, collegial decision-making, withholding or withdrawal of treatment deemed futile, and communication with patients’ relatives. These elements rely on ethical values from which we must not deviate in a...

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Main Authors: Olivier Lesieur, Jean Pierre Quenot, Zoé Cohen-Solal, Raphaëlle David, Laure De Saint Blanquat, Maxime Elbaz, Bénédicte Gaillard Le Roux, Cyril Goulenok, Sylvain Lavoué, Virginie Lemiale, Emmanuelle Mercier, Chaouki Mezher, Benoît Misset, Gwendolyn Penven, Anne Laure Poujol, Bertrand Quentin, Régis Quéré, Thierry Van Der Linden, Jean Philippe Rigaud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-04-01
Series:Annals of Intensive Care
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13613-021-00855-z