Question

Summarize this passage and explain the importance of this article.

The devastating pandemic that has stricken the worldwide population induced an unprecedented influx of patients in ICUs, raising ethical concerns not only surrounding triage and withdrawal of life support decisions, but also regarding family visits and quality of end-of-life support. These ingredients are liable to shake up our ethical principles, sharpen our ethical dilemmas, and lead to situations of major caregiver sufferings. Proposals have been made to rationalize triage policies in conjunction with ethical justifications. However, whatever the angle of approach, imbalance between utilitarian and individual ethics leads to unsolvable discomforts that caregivers will need to overcome. With this in mind, we aimed to point out some critical ethical choices with which ICU caregivers have been confronted during the Covid-19 pandemic and to underline their limits. The formalized strategies integrating the relevant tools of ethical reflection were disseminated without deviating from usual practices, leaving to intensivists the ultimate choice of decision.

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The deadly pandemic resulted in an explosion of patients in the ICU, raising ethical concerns regarding triage and withdrawal of life support decisions. The caregivers undergo unsolvable discomforts and caregiver sufferings relating triages(determining priority of patients) , ethical principles and confronts during this pandemic. The relevant tools of ethical reflection and rationalized triage polices were introduced, giving the intestivist the ultimate choice of decision.

This article gains much relevance in this scenario of esclating Covid19 cases and the huge rise of patients in ICU ,as this article deals with the ethical concerns regarding triage ,tcare giver sufferings and the solutions for these problems.