[Olabisi Adekoya]

1. The most crucial should be out first. Michael Richard identified facilities to take patients, and he worked to persuade hospital executives to allow the rescues to occur. These were the main choices that kept people alive in the chapter. Priority was also given to evacuating their vent patients. Aside from promising to clear the hospital by day’s end and make everyone ready to go, the representative from the Department of Health and Hospitals also made this promise.

The decisions that led to the deaths were: The coast guard members wanted to rescue overnight, especially after learning about the seven patients on ventilators; however, Dr. Deichmann advised them to wait until morning, saying it would be too risky to reopen the helipad. Susan Mulderick’s decision to halt the airlift was also made by Memorial nurses, who also informed Decker that the patients would continue to be bagged and manually ventilated while informing him that the remaining ventilated patients were DNR and that the operation had to end and resume at nine in the morning.

2.In the dimly lit respiratory care area, a white man said, “I’ve come to steal from you!” Because they are members of the family and need to be together, pets were taken to the hospital because they couldn’t be left alone. Because there was no infrastructure in place at the cloverleaf, a team member plucked several people from the roof of a flooded home and dropped them off at the cloverleaf highway junction west of New Orleans, where they were dumped on the grass. Cloverleaf thus played a significant role in the story.

3.The senior leader on the floor made the comment that she didn’t have much information or a method to call her corporate office to request the ambulance, demonstrating both her exhaustion and her lack of concern for the issue. Mark LeBlanc has a point.

4. The doctors at Memorial decided to make an exception to the standard procedure of prioritizing the sickest patients and those whose lives depended on machines. They decided that all patients with Do Not Resuscitate orders would be prioritized last for evacuation. The main location where they were evacuated appeared to be in a war zone as helicopters kept descending and dumped more people onto the grass. Additionally, 600 buses and 1200 people were not available.
The utilitarian approach was not the best because those individuals still needed to be treated or evacuated after those with severe injuries who needed immediate care to survive but had a low chance of survival. Because everyone deserves an equal chance to survive, the goal is to distribute care in accordance with need.
People must make difficult decisions about who will receive life-saving treatment and who will be left to die, even if patients are less likely to survive or live farther away, when practicing triage medicine. Both doctors and laypeople’s decision-making resulted in policies that aim to maximise the number of survivors when acute care cannot be provided due to a lack of resources.
Even if these patients had a lower chance of survival or were farther away from the location where organs were available, organ sharing should be provided to those who are in immediate need.

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