ORCiD
Katie Savin: 0000-0001-8155-0749
Department
Social Work
Abstract
The COVID-19 (Coronavirus disease of 2019) pandemic has led to intense conversations about ventilator allocation and reallocation during a crisis standard of care. Multiple voices in the media and multiple state guidelines mention reallocation as a possibility. Drawing upon a range of neuroscientific, phenomenological, ethical, and sociopolitical considerations, the authors argue that taking away someone's personal ventilator is a direct assault on their bodily and social integrity. They conclude that personal ventilators should not be part of reallocation pools and that triage protocols should be immediately clarified to explicitly state that personal ventilators will be protected in all cases.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1-2021
Publication Title
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
ISSN
1469-2147
Volume
30
Issue
2
DOI
10.1017/S0963180120000833
First Page
272
Last Page
284
Recommended Citation
Reynolds, Joel Michael; Guidry-Grimes, Laura; and Savin, Katie, "Against Personal Ventilator Reallocation" (2021). All Faculty Scholarship. 497.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/shs-all/497
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