Hospitals that have intensive care space available in Ontario were told to reserve one-third of those beds for transfers from hospitals that have reached ICU capacity.
Warner said implementing this criteria would mean that not every patient today who needs critical care COVID-19 or not COVID-19 related will get the critical care if triage comes into effect.
He said doctors will be required to use a checklist of criteria to determine who is most likely to survive their critical illness not only for a week or two but 12 months from then, and allocate critical care accordingly. It makes me very uncomfortable, it s morally distressing and it s terrible for patients.
Hospitals in Ontario are now being instructed to prepare to accept COVID-19 patients from across the province as case numbers spike and space in intensive care reaches capacity.
TORONTO Ontario hospitals have been warned to ready themselves for patient transfers from outside their regions as rising COVID-19 admissions place increasing pressure on the health-care system.