Ventilators may be taken from stable patients for healthier ones, BMA says

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Ventilators may be taken from stable patients for healthier ones, BMA says
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Document sets out ways care may have to be rationed if NHS becomes overwhelmed

Coronavirus patients with a poor prognosis could be taken off a ventilator even if they are stable or improving, to make it available for someone else deemed more likely to survive, under guidelines drawn up by UK doctors.

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