COVID-19 pandemic, health-care workers are to prioritize incoming patients who have the greatest change of survival.“This is a very complex document,” Dr.
Noel Gibney, the co-chair of the Edmonton Zone Medical Staff Association’s Strategic COVID-19 Pandemic Committee told Global News Friday afternoon.“This is very well designed and that’s what make it so challenging, I think, to implement.”But, even with these guidelines, random selection could still be what the health-care system has to fall back on.The critical-care triage document says patients who need care in the ICU are to be admitted on a first come, first-served basis, but if two or more patients with equal survival likelihood arrive at the same time, “random selection will be.