“A person claiming the free choice not to be vaccinated should not consider his free choice for not being resolved?”, wonders the practitioner.
Le Monde with AFP
Faced with the influx of COVID-19 patients in resuscitation, and the question of the sorting of patients, it would be necessary to systematically advise non-vaccinated adults to write anticipated directives to say whether or not they wish to be resuscitated. , estimates in a forum in the Journal du Sunday of January 2nd André Grimaldi , one of the figures of the defense of the Public hospital.
“The question posed by the fifth wave in progress and the sixth announced wave is again that of the sorting of patients to admit in resuscitation”, writes this professor emeritus in diabetology of the Parisian Hospital of Pitié-Salpêtrière, recalling That “already, the activation of the white plans leads to postpone operations and non-urgent hospitalizations to give priority to Covid patients to be intubated and ventilated”.
“It is useful to remember that caregivers care according to the needs of patients, without further consideration, that is to say without bringing their judgment on the political and religious convictions of their patients or their beliefs or beliefs or representations or their health behaviors, prevailing or not, observant or not, “he says.
” to give priority? “
“Doctors lend for that the oath of Hippocrates. This does not mean that they do not have a” moral “judgment, but that this judgment should not intervene in their relationship with the patient and influence their Decisions, “he recalls again. “But this ethical reminder does not gum the issue of sorting when there is only one bed for two patients belonging to the resuscitation”.
“To give priority? It is to caregivers to decide collegially, but that should be to the learned societies, independent agencies, ethics committees and, beyond, society as a whole and its elected to discuss the principles that must guide caregivers “, continues the doctor.
That’s why, in his eyes, “it would be good to systematically advise anyone who refusing to be vaccinated to write anticipated directives to say whether or not they want to be resuscitated in the case of severe COVID.
“A person claiming the free choice of not being vaccinated should not consider his free choice not to be reranger?”, wonders the practitioner.
A tribune signed by fifteen doctors and published at the end of December in Le Monde was already the question of taking vaccine status in prioritizing COVID patients in resuscitation.