This state marks patients to see who will get COVID care

The new pointing card establishes a potentially set of future decisions for health professionals.


Keeping hospitals being submerged has been one of many reasons to try to keep coronavirus case numbers under control. But as the states of the whole country have days of record breaking of recordCOVID-19 SURGIES, those responsible for certain areas already plan the absolute worst and not onlybring back their reopening plans. In a dark indicator of the size of the situation in development,Arizona has published a rules book thatdescribes patients to see who will get COVID-19 When they are admitted to a hospital. Those who are not judged to receive rare resources can be refused in a manner as to gain health care for patients considered more likely to survive.

"All lives are valuable", the addendy states, before claiming that "no one will categorically refuse to care based on stereotypes, assumptions about the quality of life of any person or on the [CIS] judgment on" value " From the person based on the presence or absence of disability. "However, within the framework of the newly initiated rules, doctors are protected from any legal responsibility surrounding the life or decisions of death they will do at the moment.

The so-called "crisis standards" (CSC) is a severe reminder of the realities to which tense health professionals face the fight against pandemic coronavirus.

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Now, in an Arizona hospital, a patient affected points "on the basis of individual assessment" and "mortality review of one year or five years", the notes of the addendum. "The smaller scores indicate a higher probability of receiving critical care, and priority is given to those with lower scores."

The announcement also comes like Arizona reported itsMaximum spike of the highest day Of 4,800 COVID-19 cases of July 1st, NBC News Reports.

The times of Los AngelesNote thatPatient ranking during triage Will use something called "assessment of the failure of the sequential organ" (sofa), which marks patients according to the condition of the pulmonary, circulation, heart, kidney, liver and neurological systems.

TheThe use of the sofa came under fire In the past as unreliable, described as "bad predictors of the survival of individual patients" byNational Academies Press. In a state suffering from a pandemic that has a population greater than over 65, some who fear that this topic will lead to many difficult decisions made by overworked doctors.

Here is a sample of how the notation works:

arizona department of health services covid scorecard, june 2020
Services from Department of Health Arizona

Christine SeveranceMD, a Phoenix family doctor, wrote a petition signed by more than 1,000 physicians who wish to have CSC promulgated by the state, as well as a renewal of expired home orders. "Historically, ourUse of crisis standards In the United States were limited to terrorist attacks, mass shootings, battlegrounds and aviation accidents, "the severance pay written in the petition." What makes us most people is that it was preventable. "And for more where you can go to avoid avoiding COVID -19, checkYour risk of contracting coronavirus is the highest in these two states.

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