everyone Must have equal right to treatment, if the pressure on the healthcare system becomes too large?
Not if you ask the swedes.
At least not if you look the document, as the Swedish media Aftonbladet has come in possession of.
the Document, which is sent to the Karolinska University hospital in Stockholm, contains guidelines for how doctors should prioritise the patients to the intensive treatments, if it becomes penetrated with the sygehuspladserne.
According to the document, it is particularly the elderly and the weak, who are going to be left in the lurch.
For the guidelines states that patients with a biological age of 80 years or more will be downgraded. The same applies for patients with a biological age of over 70 years, if they simultaneously have a significant failure in more than one organ system, such as the heart, lung, or kidney disease.
For patients with a biological age between 60 and 70 years old they must bortprioriteres, if they have a failure in more than two organ systems.
The biological age is determined by an advanced computer program from a variety of medical and sociological data, including smoking habit, alcohol consumption, and indlæggelseshistorik, why a person’s biological age is not necessarily cast overns with the birth certificate.
In the guidelines reads it also, to patients already receiving intensive treatment may be deprived of the treatment again, if they fall within the in the document above mentioned categories.
A doctor like Aftonbladet has talked with, who wishes to remain anonymous, tells the media that the guidelines being difficult to follow.
“Patients must be downgraded according to the new directives in order to get intensivpladserne to that number, but now you have added a gummiparagraf, which do not take into account the actual age, but only the biological age,” says the doctor.
In the document, it says that the guidelines are a starting point in the guidelines from the Swedish health authorities. But according to Aftonbladet do not contain details about which age groups should be given priority. There is, however, that it is permissible to take the starting point in a patient’s biological age.
The new guidelines, however, must first be taken into use, provided that the Swedish health care system is being pushed to the limit.
According to public health Journal has the swedes on Thursday 453 people in the intensive treatment, of which men account for three out of four patients.
It is expected that the numbers in Sweden will peak in the last week of april, where there will be a shortage of over 1000 intensivpladser.
the Karolinska Universitetsygehus have been hard hit by deaths as a result of the corona. The whole of 486 Swedish deaths out of a total of 793 has taken place at the hospital in Stockholm, writes the healthcare policy Journal.
