Multidisciplinary support for ethics deliberations during the first COVID wave.

Background: The first COVID-19 wave started in February 2020 in France. The influx of patients requiring emergency care and high-level technicity led healthcare professionals to fear saturation of available care. In that context, the multidisciplinary thics-upport ell (EST) was created to help medical teams consider the decisions that could potentially be sources of ethical dilemmas.