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It’s time to talk to your loved ones about what care and treatment you’d want if you face death from COVID-19.
The fundamental ethos of the NHS is egalitarian.
Mechanical ventilators are often used in life and death situations, treating patients with pneumonia, brain injury and stroke. One mechanical ventilator can cost up to A$82,000.
Rather than basing decisions about ICU access on age, clinicians need to consider the potential benefits and burdens of treatments proposed for every patient.
Over the past week, we’ve seen about 350 new cases per day. If this rate continues, Australia’s current ICU system will be able to cope.
In the most severe cases, COVID-19 patients need oxygen pumped directly into their airways, or even be hooked up to a machine that does the job of their heart and lungs.
How do we develop new drugs quickly yet safely? How prepared are we to give up some personal freedoms? And how do we allocate scarce resources? These are just some of the tough questions we face.
When patients, doctors and nurses have the opportunity to share their experiences of hospital intensive care, the resulting dialogue can be transformative.
On the eve of a federal budget looking for savings, I would like to report a medical intervention that reduces suffering, can prolong life and dramatically reduces health-care costs. The intervention itself…
As an intensive care physician I’m increasingly confronted with managing patients who are at the end of their life. Australians need to be aware that the way that they will spend the last few days or weeks…
Imagine how frightening it must be for a woman to go into labour when she is just over halfway through her pregnancy and her baby has only had 23 or 24 weeks to grow. She and her family are overcome with…
Intensive Care Unit clinicians often allocate scarce resources towards gravely-ill existing patients rather than freeing…
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Conjoint Professor, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle
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Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, Haematologist/BMT Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital and Director, Praxis Australia, University of Sydney
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Professor of Medicine, Monash University
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Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Senior Specialist in Intensive Care and Head of Clinical Unit in Ethics and Health Law, University of Newcastle
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of End-of-Life Law and Regulation, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Law, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, Queensland University of Technology
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Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
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Professor in Law, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Lecturer Product Design, University of Technology Sydney
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Head of School and Dean of Pharmacy, University of Sydney
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Professor and Pro Vice Chancellor (Health) University of Wollongong, University of Technology Sydney
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
