Ethical dilemmas in the era of COVID-19
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic placed an extraordinary demand on health systems and healthcare providers all over the world. The pandemic presented a number of unprecedented challenging ethical issues. Across the globe, hospitals are being challenged by a large number of patients p...
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doaj-a82e2f44774b4946ba6e873bf548d4082021-08-04T22:41:56ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsAvicenna Journal of Medicine2231-07702249-44642020-07-01100310210510.4103/AJM.AJM_119_20Ethical dilemmas in the era of COVID-19Hassan Chamsi-Pasha0Majed Chamsi-Pasha1Mohammed A Albar2Department of Cardiology, King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaDepartment of Medicine, International Medical Center, Jeddah, Saudi-ArabiaDepartment of Medical Ethics, International Medical Center, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic placed an extraordinary demand on health systems and healthcare providers all over the world. The pandemic presented a number of unprecedented challenging ethical issues. Across the globe, hospitals are being challenged by a large number of patients presenting to the emergency room for treatment, creating scarcities of critical care resources, and uncovering the need for formal crisis standards of care. Difficult life and death decisions, which may create severe moral distress to the physicians, have to be made in emergency rooms and intensive care units. Other ethical issues, such as that related to conducting clinical trials during the pandemic, and the increase in domestic violence during the quarantine period, will be also discussed.http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/AJM.AJM_119_20coronavirus disease 2019ethical challengesmedical ethicsscarce resources |
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The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic placed an extraordinary demand on health systems and healthcare providers all over the world. The pandemic presented a number of unprecedented challenging ethical issues. Across the globe, hospitals are being challenged by a large number of patients presenting to the emergency room for treatment, creating scarcities of critical care resources, and uncovering the need for formal crisis standards of care. Difficult life and death decisions, which may create severe moral distress to the physicians, have to be made in emergency rooms and intensive care units. Other ethical issues, such as that related to conducting clinical trials during the pandemic, and the increase in domestic violence during the quarantine period, will be also discussed. |
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