Reaction on certain media responses to the Statement of the ČSARIM 13/2020

Abstract

Recently, opinions have arisen in the wider professional and the general public which criticise and refuse the Statement of the ČSARIM 13/2020 - Decision making in patients in intensive care in a situation of lack of scarce resources. Two of the Statement's co-authors react to the said criticism in this article.

Keywords

• Anesthesiology
• intensive medicine
• allocation of scarce resources in health care
• medical triage
• health law
• medical law
• Czech Medical Association of J. E. Purkyně