Idaho's "Crisis Standards of Care" includes a universal DNR order...

[SidDithers]

https://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/news/idaho-expands-crisis-standards-care-statewide-due-surge-covid-19-patients-requiring-0

https://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/editorials/article254287998.html

Here’s an even scarier statement, from the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare’s strategies during crisis standards of care:

“Universal DNR Order: Adult patients hospitalized during a public health emergency, when crisis standards of care have been declared, should receive aggressive interventions; however, they should receive NO attempts at resuscitation (compressions, shocks or intubation if not yet intubated) in the event of cardiac arrest. The likelihood of survival after a cardiac arrest is extremely low for adult patients. As well, resuscitation poses significant risk to healthcare workers due to aerosolization of body fluids and uses large quantities of scarce resources such as staff time, personal protective equipment, and lifesaving medications, with minimal opportunity for benefit.”

In other words, whether we’ve signed a “do not resuscitate” directive or not, everyone single one of us is now under a DNR directive in Idaho because we’ve reached crisis standards of care due to a deadly and overwhelming surge of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients in our hospitals.

Edit: for patients on mechanical ventilation only. Sorry - that wasn't clear in the initial articlel.

https://coronavirus.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020_ID_CSC_Strategies_v2_Final_Posted-1.pdf

Sid

[mainer]

1. Perfectly logical.

It needs to be instituted in adults.

[nycbos]

2. Bring out your dead.

[leftstreet]

3. Almost 200 rural hospitals have closed since 2005

I don't know if that impacted Idaho

But FFS, for profit healthcare just keeps leading to more consolidations and closures

It needs to stop

https://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/programs-projects/rural-health/rural-hospital-closures/

https://www.npr.org/2020/04/09/829753752/small-town-hospitals-are-closing-just-as-coronavirus-arrives-in-rural-america

[roamer65]

4. Palliative care quarantine facilities for willfully unvaxxed would solve the problem.

Let them live or die by their choice.

[carpetbagger]

5. Why am I always in the path of the political poop tornado?

I swear, as a palliative care doctor, it's like living in the trailer park, you know it's headed right. To. Me. Terri Schiavo. "Death Panels for granny". Now the unvaxxed Army Of Derp. Just saying.