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MISSINGROSIE said:Women outlive men..so, I would hazard a guess that there are more women in nursing homes. I will qualify this with a caveat...a good portion of women coming to the ER from nursing homes do so with fever and delirium... and a HUGE % of the time ( almost always) it is a urinary tract infection. Men don't get those nearly as often for anatomical reasons.

I sure as hell hope women are not being kept from the ICU in favor of men. I would stake my SS check on that!

Yes that is probably a good explanation. Average life expectancy for women in Sweden are 84.7 years, for men it is only 81.3 years.

Triage based on sex is definitely not allowed here, nor social status and so on. It is formally not even allowed to do triage based on chronological age.

Still there are obviously always considerations taken when deciding to place a patient in ICU or not, as to not cause unnecessary suffering. If one is a bit cynical one could perhaps claim other reasons, such as that there is usually to few ICU beds here even in normal circumstances. Very hard decisions to take at any rate.