Alberta revises triage protocol to exclude children
Global News
Alberta Health Services will not include pediatric patients in its critical care triage protocol if it has to activate it.
Alberta Health Services will not include pediatric patients in its critical care triage protocol if it has to activate it.
An AHS spokesperson said Tuesday the “shift” in its approach was communicated with doctors and staff last week.
“The protocol now only applies to adult patients.”
AHS said the decision to exclude children from the triage protocol was made after discussions with pediatric teams, “who expressed understandable distress at potentially having to use pediatric triage.”
Any gain in ICU capacity from pediatric triage would be negligible, AHS added.
AHS has not had to implement triage protocol and said it has made every effort to find additional ICU capacity as COVID-19 admissions surged and put huge pressure on the health system. Surgeries have been postponed, additional space opened and staff redeployed to meet the historically high ICU demand.
“We currently have adequate ICU capacity and hope to never have to implement the protocol,” AHS told Global News in a statement Tuesday evening.
Triage protocol means doctors, nurses and health administrators have to prioritize patients, essentially having to decide who gets a chance to live and who may not.
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