TABLE 2.

List of Exclusion Criteria for Ventilator Access for Adult Patients^*

Cardiac arrest: unwitnessed arrest, recurrent arrest without hemodynamic stability, arrest unresponsive to standard interventions and measures, trauma-related arrest Irreversible age-specific hypotension unresponsive to fluid resuscitation and vasopressor therapy Traumatic brain injury with no motor response to painful stimulus (i.e., best motor response = 1) Severe burns: where predicted survival ≤ 10% even with unlimited aggressive therapy Any other conditions resulting in immediate or near-immediate mortality even with aggressive therapy

^*Adapted from Ontario Health Plan for an Influenza Pandemic Guidelines.