ReviewAnnals of intensive care2020
Ethical dilemmas due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Review in Annals of intensive care, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 116 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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116 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 316 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mindfulness-based interventions for improving mental health of frontline healthcare professionals during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Prevalence and influencing factors of post-traumatic stress disorder among Chinese healthcare workers during the COVID-19 epidemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
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- "Everything has been tried and his heart can't recover…": A Descriptive Review of "Do Everything!" in the Archive of Ontario Consent and Capacity Board.BMC medical ethics · 2022Pooled it
- The Impact of Epidemics and Pandemics on the Mental Health of Healthcare Workers: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Pooled it
- Interventions to address mental health issues in healthcare workers during infectious disease outbreaks: A systematic review.Journal of psychiatric research · 2021Pooled it
- Update of the recommendations of the Sociedade Portuguesa de Cuidados Intensivos and the Infection and Sepsis Group for the approach to COVID-19 in Intensive Care Medicine.Revista Brasileira de terapia intensivaPooled it
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- Care without co-presence: Crafting alternative modes of involvement in UK intensive care in times of COVID-19.Medical anthropology quarterly · 2026Article
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- Effect of noninvasive ventilation on mortality and clinical outcomes among patients with severe hypoxemic COVID-19 pneumonia after high-flow nasal oxygen failure: a multicenter retrospective French cohort with propensity score analysis.Respiratory research · 2024Article
- A multi-country mixed-method study identifying the association between perceived ethical work climate and problems among critical care nurses.BMC nursing · 2024Article
- Seeking Protection in the Heart of the Storm: Findings from a Grounded Theory Study.Journal of nursing management · 2024Article
- Close relatives' perspective of critical illness due to COVID-19: Keeping in touch at a distance.Nursing open · 2024Article
- The social evolution of COVID-19: pandemics asFrontiers in sociology · 2024Review
- Components related to ethical decision making in medical science students: A structural equation model.PloS one · 2024Article
- Scarce resources, public health and professional care: the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbating bioethical conflicts - findings from global qualitative expert interviews.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Ventilatory Management of Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Due to SARS-CoV-2.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- "I couldn't": A phenomenological exploration of ethical tensions experienced by bereaved family members during the pandemic.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2023Article
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO): A Lifeline for Pregnant and Postpartum Women.Cureus · 2023Review
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6 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
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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