|
|
|
|
|
|
by UrsaMedius
1551 days ago
|
|
|
"Many elderly people were administered morphine instead of oxygen despite available supplies, effectively ending their lives." This is from the abstract, but as far as I could find, this is never mentioned in the actual text of the paper? Certainly there's no reference to "oxygen", "morphine", or "administer" on the linked web page. So I guessed this had something to do with "end-of-life care", which is discussed in Supplement 6. But I could not find any explicit reference to morphine or oxygen there or in the sources of the supplement, either. Maybe it's in (Habib, 2020), but the link is broken. |
|
|
It's easy to find the article, you just google search with the article title.
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2376
> Yngve Gustafsson, professor of geriatric medicine at Umea University, noted that the proportion of older people in respiratory care nationally was lower than at the same time a year ago, despite people over 70 being the worst affected by covid-19. He expressed concern about the increasing practice of doctors recommending by telephone a “palliative cocktail” for sick older people in care homes.
> “Older people are routinely being given morphine and midazolam, which are respiratory-inhibiting,” he told the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper [5], “It’s active euthanasia, to say the least.”