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One Ventilator, Two Patients

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You are on call in a full ICU. A 30-year-old arrives in respiratory failure with a good prognosis if ventilated. The only free-able ventilator is currently keeping alive a 75-year-old whose prognosis is poor but not hopeless. Hospital policy is silent on reallocation. What do you do?

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