WSJ News Exclusive | NYU Langone Tells ER Doctors to ‘Think More Critically’ About Who Gets Ventilators

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NYU Langone Health told emergency-room doctors that they have “sole discretion” to place patients on ventilators and institutional backing to “withhold futile intubations”

A March 28 email from Robert Femia, who heads the New York health center’s department of emergency medicine, underscored the life-or-death decisions placed on the shoulders of bedside physicians as they treat increasing numbers of coronavirus patients with a limited supply of ventilators.

 

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