UK medics have started "rationing" ventilators by only allowing patients with a "reasonable certainty" of survival to use them, it is claimed.
Medics say this has nothing to do with capacity, but is because some require breathing assistance for "extended periods" of up to two weeks.
In many cases this is not in the patient's interest if professionals believe they will not survive. A senior consultant told the Daily Telegraph that doctors are being "more careful" about who they give critical care to.
In normal times they give "the benefit of the doubt" to sick patients, the insider said. Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will start in8Cancel Play now But they continued: "With this