{"id":5426,"date":"2020-03-24T15:07:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T22:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=5426"},"modified":"2021-03-02T15:08:24","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T23:08:24","slug":"the-toughest-triage-allocating-ventilators-in-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/24\/the-toughest-triage-allocating-ventilators-in-a-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Toughest Triage\u2014Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Truog et al cite estimates that 2.4 million to 21 million Americans will require hospitalization due to COVID-19 and about 10-25% of the hospitalized patients may need ventilators (based on Italy\u2019s experience).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The article suggests that states should develop strategies for rationing medical supplies, including ventilators, and recommends convening a committee to develop triage criteria.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Truog et al. (Mar 23, 2020). The Toughest Triage\u2014Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic. JAMA. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMp2005689\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMp2005689<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truog et al cite estimates that 2.4 million to 21 million Americans will require hospitalization due to COVID-19 and about 10-25% of the hospitalized patients may need ventilators (based on Italy\u2019s experience).\u00a0 The article suggests that states should develop strategies for rationing medical supplies, including ventilators, and recommends convening a committee to develop triage criteria.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/03\/24\/the-toughest-triage-allocating-ventilators-in-a-pandemic\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-5426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5427,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5426\/revisions\/5427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5426"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=5426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}