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At Harvard, Truog, who supports White's framework, has recently published articles in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Boston Globe to help prepare hospitals, doctors and the public for the decisions and outcomes he thinks they could be facing soon.
That kind of forethought by specialists is important, White has argued, so that doctors facing a pandemic don't have to struggle with such dire ethical questions case by caseBy contrast, the framework White and his team developed ensures no one is disqualified from critical care from the outset.
"Everyone who is normally eligible for intensive care remains eligible in a public health emergency," White said.
Several hundred hospitals around the country have adopted White's framework, he saidTypically, adult patients will stay in the ICU -- and on a ventilator -- for only three to four days, as one Connecticut doctor explained, but Covid-19 patients need them for up to two or three weeks, dramatically increasing demand.
Truog said he worked all weekend helping hospitals develop policies that determine who receives intensive care during a public health emergency.