Triage in an Italian ICU during the pandemic

8 April 2020

In this Thinking Out Loud interview, Katrien Devolder talks to Dr Marco Vergano, intensive care specialist and Chair of the Ethics Section of the Italian Society for Anesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine (Siaarti) about triage in the ICU during the coronavirus pandemic, and the moral burden this causes.

Video

https://www.youtube.com/embed/8mJ5KYInZQ8

About the Series

Thinking Out Loud provides a series of videos and audio-podcasts produced by Katrien Devolder in which she talks to leading philosophers from around the world on topics related to practical ethics. The podcast and videos are intended for a non-specialist audience.

Katrien is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.

You can watch the videos on the Practical Ethics YouTube Channel or listen on Oxford Podcasts.

Audio

Link to episode on Oxford Podcasts.

Transcript

Link to SRT file.

Marco Vergano

Anesthesiologist and Intensivist | Chair of SIAARTI Ethics Section
Twitter:  @marco_vergano

 

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