Discussion 8.1_Deadly Virus Group Case Study
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Agency guidelines should give health care workers and other workers whom society rely
on for saving lives priority for treatment because they are front row when an epidemic occurs.
During an epidemic as such, we also tend to be understaffed so it is important to keep them
healthy to be able to support those who are being affected. The only downfall for the policy
would be if there are many ill people being affected by the new deadly virus, supply will be more
limited since we are prioritizing health care workers and other frontline workers. We do agree
with this policy. It is noted that these two groups are most at risk of dying from the virus.
Therefore, to protect the greatest number of lives and potential years of life, they should be
prioritized in receiving this scarce resource (Emanuel et al., 2020). Yes, all hospitals and clinics
need to follow the same protocols as it would not be ethical to allocate resources based on
personal decisions hospital by hospital (Kirkpatrick et al., 2020). As well as this could cause civil
unrest if people believe they’re being treated unfairly, and it could cost them their lives. Due to
the declining health of the two patients, it would be in the hospital's best interest to discuss end-
of-life planning and end-of-life care with the families. The individuals receiving treatment may
not want to live their last moments of life surviving or hanging onto treatment, which has been
recounted by multiple individuals making end-of-life care plans for their families (U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services, 2022). For limited resource allocation, the hospital
should speak with the families about ending treatment (Emmanuel et al., 2020). Ending treatment
for the individuals could humanely end prolonged suffering and help another person.
References
Emanuel, E. J., Persad, G., Upshur, R., Thomé, B., Parker, M., Glickman, A., Zhang, C., Boyle,
C., Smith, M. J., & Phillips, J. P. (2020). Fair allocation of scarce medical resources in the
time of COvId-19.
The New England Journal of Medicine
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2055.
https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmsb2005114
Kirkpatrick, J. N., Hull, S. C., Fedson, S., Mullen, B., & Goodlin, S. J. (2020). Scarce-Resource
allocation and patient triage during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Journal of the American
College of Cardiology
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76
(1), 85–92.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2020.05.006
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2022, November 17).
Making decisions for
someone at the end of life
. National Institute on Aging.
https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/making-decisions-someone-end-life
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