Overview
- Provides an analysis of triage guidelines of multiple countries in a comprehensive way
- Compares public opinion of different countries on triage
- Explores the causes and effects of the epidemic on triage practices
Part of the book series: European Union and its Neighbours in a Globalized World (EUNGW, volume 18)
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About this book
Triage decision-making during a pandemic is linked to complex ethical, medical, and legal dilemmas, which in the past have been discussed mainly based on hypothetical scenarios. The crisis caused by Covid-19 has shown these dilemmas to be very real, and many countries faced significant health care challenges during the pandemic. The book presents different views on the problems of triage during the time of Covid-19 and to shed a light on how various countries approached triage during the pandemic.
The absence of staff and resources in many countries opened a discussion of whether they should strive for the most egalitarian way of deciding whom to help with limited resources or to act in a utilitarian manner and establish a triage system based on saving as many people as possible. There were so-called conflicts of duty in many parts of the world, and decision-makers who had to choose which patients would survive in the absence of resources were under tremendous pressure. This book presents different views on the issue of such decision-making from legal, ethical, and medical points of view. The authors explain the origin of the concept of triage and its use in modern medicine. They point out the distinction between triage and the allocation of resources while also analysing how pandemic triage differs from emergency and disaster triage.
Keywords
- Covid-19
- Epidemics
- Triage
- Criminal Responisbility
- Priorisation
- Medical Bioethics
- Patients’ rights
- Compulsory vaccination
- Public opinion
- Health insurance
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr Renata Salecl, Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law, Ljubljana, Slovenia, and Birkbeck Law School, University of London.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Legal, Ethical and Medical Aspects of Triage
Book Subtitle: Whom to Save during a Pandemic?
Editors: Renata Salecl
Series Title: European Union and its Neighbours in a Globalized World
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-73753-4Due: 18 November 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-73756-5Due: 18 November 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-73754-1Due: 18 November 2024
Series ISSN: 2524-8928
Series E-ISSN: 2524-8936
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 188
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations