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- The COVID-19 pandemic worsens existing difficulties for children with tracheostomies and their families, highlighting issues in long-term care.
- Ethical concerns include insufficient access to healthcare, resources, and rehabilitation services for these children, particularly within marginalized communities.
- The paper explores how these challenges reflect broader racial disparities and the ongoing discussions about equitable healthcare access for technology-dependent children during the pandemic.
Article Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating longstanding challenges facing children with tracheostomies and their families. Myriad ethical concerns arising in the long-term care of children with tracheostomies during the COVID-19 pandemic revolve around inadequate access to care, healthcare resources, and rehabilitation services. Marginalized communities such as those from Black and Hispanic origins face disproportionate chronic illness because of racial and other underlying disparities. In this paper, we describe how these disparities also present challenges to children who are technology-dependent, such as those with tracheostomies and discuss the emerging ethical discourse regarding healthcare and resource access for this population during the pandemic.
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