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Introduction: Limited Resources
Limited and/or scarce resources are among the main triggers for ethical dilemmas both during armed conflict and during other emergencies.
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Limited/ scarce resources environment
 
folder Conflict setting
b Reversed triage priorities?
b Mercy Killing?
b A human life is a human life
b Care for alleged civilian victims
b Pirate Shot
b Treatment of self-inflicted injury
b Relations between Western Military Forces and NGOs
b RTD: Treat Gonorrhea or battle wounds first?
b Just and Appropriate Treatment – Who Shall be First?
b Which level of care / Denial of further care
b "Easy" amputation as prosthesis is guaranteed
b Do all to safe a life – or switch to palliative care?
b Blood donation for a jihadist
b Only one equipment but two patients
b Injured civilians and mission safety
b Obtaining valid consent to emergency treatment
b Resources for local civilians or reserved for emergency treatment of own?
b Infected burn-wounds in local children – can you treat them?
b Unexploded Ordnance in an Expectant Patient
b Priority for treatment – Insurgent or soldier
b Snake bite – do you use antivenom for a local patient?
b Access to military HCP – Medical Rules of Eligibility
b Treatment preference to an important military leader?
folder Level of care under limited resources
b Low local standard of care
b Care for alleged civilian victims
b RTD: Treat Gonorrhea or battle wounds first?
b Which level of care / Denial of further care
b Attempted suicide
b Do all to safe a life – or switch to palliative care?
b Refusal to evacuate a wounded national
b Blood donation for a jihadist
b Isolated at sea – Mission first?
b Humanitarian Relief
b Public health in the Deployed Environment
b Only one equipment but two patients
b Resources for local civilians or reserved for emergency treatment of own?
b Infected burn-wounds in local children – can you treat them?
b VIP treatment?
b To fly or not to fly – MEDEVAC
b Different treatment depending on nationality
b Keep alive despite massive wounds and unsure quality of life?
b Snake bite – do you use antivenom for a local patient?
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