THE SARS-COV-2 PANDEMIC AND THE IMPACT ON MEDICAL PRACTICE

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic represented an economic, social, and health crisis, requiring health systems to respond to the great pressure of care, due to the large number of infected people, collapsing in several places. Given this situation, the moral dilemmas, which are common in the practice of medical professionals, have become more exacerbated, for example, when allocating a place for a patient in intensive care, in the face of scarcity. This study is a literature review on productions that addressed ethical dilemmas in the most acute period of the pandemic, concluding that there is a need for permanent education institutions and collective decision-making spaces for ethical decisions, based on moral judgments.