• Eduardo A Rueda, Edilma Suárez, Fritz E Gempeler, Lilian Torregrosa, Andrea Caballero, Diana Bernal, and Nora Badoui.
• nternational Bioethics Committee - UNESCO, Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Educación en Bioética; Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia. eruedab@gmail.com.
• Biomedica. 2020 Oct 30; 40 (Supl. 2): 180-187.

AbstractThe pandemic caused by COVID19 is associated with an increase in the number of cases of cardiorespiratory arrest, which has resulted in ethical concerns regarding the enforceability of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, as well as the conditions to carry it out. The risk of aerosol transmission and the clinical uncertainties about the efficacy, the potential sequelae, and the circumstances that could justify limiting this procedure during the pandemic have multiplied the ethical doubts on how to proceed in these cases. Based on ethical and legal grounds, this paper offers a practical guide on how to proceed in the clinical setting in cases of cardiopulmonary arrest during the pandemic. The criteria of justice, benefit, no harm, respect for autonomy, precaution, integrity, and transparency are asserted in an organized and practical framework for decision-making regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

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