You're a doctor in a rural clinic with one oxygen cylinder and two critical patients.
What should you do?
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Correct answer: C
Explanation
In medical ethics and emergency response with scarce critical resources, the principle of medical triage is followed.
Triage involves assessing patients to allocate limited medical supplies to those who have the highest likelihood of survival and benefit from the treatment, thereby maximizing the number of lives saved.
Therefore, the doctor should follow triage and treat the patient with the better survival chances.
Correct Option: (C)