The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic as a source of unprecedented bioethical and biolaw issues: lessons for intensivists.

It seems to be highly significant that if a treatment plan involves incremental therapeutic steps in the face of a disease with a high probability of death, such as severe pneumonia from SARS-CoV-2, it is advisable from the onset (admission to the hospital) to proceed with SCP, Art. 5 of Law 219/2017, which needs to be part of medical records and which discloses the consent or refusal of the patient to the SCP plan (pharmacological treatment, noninvasive or invasive ventilation following tracheal intubation, and transfer to the ICU).

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