Ethical dilemmas in the era of COVID-19

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic placed an extraordinary demand on health systems and healthcare providers all over the world. The pandemic presented a number of unprecedented challenging ethical issues. Across the globe, hospitals are being challenged by a large number of patients p...

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Autores principales: Hassan Chamsi-Pasha, Majed Chamsi-Pasha, Mohammed A Albar
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:a82e2f44774b4946ba6e873bf548d4082021-12-02T17:00:58ZEthical dilemmas in the era of COVID-192231-07702249-446410.4103/AJM.AJM_119_20https://doaj.org/article/a82e2f44774b4946ba6e873bf548d4082020-07-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/AJM.AJM_119_20https://doaj.org/toc/2231-0770https://doaj.org/toc/2249-4464The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic placed an extraordinary demand on health systems and healthcare providers all over the world. The pandemic presented a number of unprecedented challenging ethical issues. Across the globe, hospitals are being challenged by a large number of patients presenting to the emergency room for treatment, creating scarcities of critical care resources, and uncovering the need for formal crisis standards of care. Difficult life and death decisions, which may create severe moral distress to the physicians, have to be made in emergency rooms and intensive care units. Other ethical issues, such as that related to conducting clinical trials during the pandemic, and the increase in domestic violence during the quarantine period, will be also discussed.Hassan Chamsi-PashaMajed Chamsi-PashaMohammed A AlbarThieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd.articlecoronavirus disease 2019ethical challengesmedical ethicsscarce resourcesMedicineRENAvicenna Journal of Medicine, Vol 10, Iss 03, Pp 102-105 (2020)
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ethical challenges
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spellingShingle coronavirus disease 2019
ethical challenges
medical ethics
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Hassan Chamsi-Pasha
Majed Chamsi-Pasha
Mohammed A Albar
Ethical dilemmas in the era of COVID-19
description The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic placed an extraordinary demand on health systems and healthcare providers all over the world. The pandemic presented a number of unprecedented challenging ethical issues. Across the globe, hospitals are being challenged by a large number of patients presenting to the emergency room for treatment, creating scarcities of critical care resources, and uncovering the need for formal crisis standards of care. Difficult life and death decisions, which may create severe moral distress to the physicians, have to be made in emergency rooms and intensive care units. Other ethical issues, such as that related to conducting clinical trials during the pandemic, and the increase in domestic violence during the quarantine period, will be also discussed.
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title Ethical dilemmas in the era of COVID-19
title_short Ethical dilemmas in the era of COVID-19
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