<p>The SARS-Co2 coronavirus has caused the pandemic that many suspected would come, but which has still caught health services by surprise. Medical resources are never infinite, even in wealthy countries with well-developed healthcare systems like Australia. Host, Professor John Massie explores with guest, Professor Lynn Gillam some of the ethical issues around allocation of resources to children during the COVID19 pandemic.</p>

The SARS-Co2 coronavirus has caused the pandemic that many suspected would come, but which has still caught health services by surprise. Medical resources are never infinite, even in wealthy countries with well-developed healthcare systems like Australia. Host, Professor John Massie explores with guest, Professor Lynn Gillam some of the ethical issues around allocation of resources to children during the COVID19 pandemic.

Special: Pandemic Ethics in a Children’s Hospital. Allocation of resources – Beyond ventilators

Essential Ethics, from the Children’s Bioethics Centre at The Royal Children’s Hospital (Melbourne, Australia) presents discussion of challenging cases that come up when treating children. Hear the most up-to-date thinking and draw knowledge from the ethics toolkit. After a decade or more of experience our team of world-recognised ethicists takes on the hardest cases. Essential Ethics is informative, interesting and always relevant. Hosted by Professor John Massie, a clinician and bioethicist at The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne.

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