Ethical conflicts associated with COVID‐19 pandemic, triage and frailty—unexpected positive disease progression in a 90‐year‐old patient: A case report

Key Clinical Message During the COVID 19 pandemic, advanced age, scoring systems, and a shortage of ICU beds were used as cut‐offs for ICU admission. This case report describes the epicrisis of an elderly patient who was almost mistakenly not treated in an ICU.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Andreas Wehrfritz, Joachim Schmidt, Frank Bremer, Anne‐Katharina Lang, Jacob Welzer, Ixchel Castellanos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2023-07-01
Series:Clinical Case Reports
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.7710