Ventilators may be taken from stable patients for healthier ones, BMA says

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Coronavirus patients with a poor prognosis could be taken off a ventilator even if they are stable or improving, to make it available for someone else deemed more likely to survive, under guidelines drawn up by UK doctors.

 

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What an asinine headline. What the hell does this even mean. Come on your supposed to be professionals. Stable to healthier? A stable one is a healthier one. Why would a healthy patient need it?

Just like Italy and other countries will be the same.

Republican death panels.

Don't take them from the horses! No one wants a used horse ventilator! (satire in a time of crisis).

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