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It’s time to talk to your loved ones about what care and treatment you’d want if you face death from COVID-19.
The fundamental ethos of the NHS is egalitarian.
Mechanical ventilators are often used in life and death situations, treating patients with pneumonia, brain injury and stroke. One mechanical ventilator can cost up to A$82,000.
Rather than basing decisions about ICU access on age, clinicians need to consider the potential benefits and burdens of treatments proposed for every patient.
Over the past week, we’ve seen about 350 new cases per day. If this rate continues, Australia’s current ICU system will be able to cope.
In the most severe cases, COVID-19 patients need oxygen pumped directly into their airways, or even be hooked up to a machine that does the job of their heart and lungs.
How do we develop new drugs quickly yet safely? How prepared are we to give up some personal freedoms? And how do we allocate scarce resources? These are just some of the tough questions we face.
When patients, doctors and nurses have the opportunity to share their experiences of hospital intensive care, the resulting dialogue can be transformative.
On the eve of a federal budget looking for savings, I would like to report a medical intervention that reduces suffering, can prolong life and dramatically reduces health-care costs. The intervention itself…
As an intensive care physician I’m increasingly confronted with managing patients who are at the end of their life. Australians need to be aware that the way that they will spend the last few days or weeks…
Imagine how frightening it must be for a woman to go into labour when she is just over halfway through her pregnancy and her baby has only had 23 or 24 weeks to grow. She and her family are overcome with…
Intensive Care Unit clinicians often allocate scarce resources towards gravely-ill existing patients rather than freeing…
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Conjoint Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, Haematologist/BMT Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital and Director, Praxis Australia, University of Sydney
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Senior Specialist in Intensive Care and Head of Clinical Unit in Ethics and Health Law, University of Newcastle
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
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Professor of Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
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Acting Assistant Scientific Director Critical Care Strategic Clinical Network, Alberta Health Services and Senior Research Associate, University of Calgary
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology Sydney
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Consultant Anaesthetist and Professor of Public Engagement and Innovation, Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy, UCL
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Director of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities, University of Colorado Anschutz
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Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
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Senior Associate, Grattan Institute
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Honorary Professor of Anaesthesia, University of Bristol