“…28,36 Following the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome 50 in 2003 and the development of the first protocol 51 for ICU tertiary triage, there has been a significant amount of work to further develop such protocols. 16,18,29,[52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61] Most well-developed and evaluated ICU triage protocols 16,29,51,57,58,60,61 have used inclusion and exclusion criteria in combination with the sequential organ failure score (SOFA). In a conventional or contingency situation, when there is not an absolute shortfall of resources, the inclusion criteria for admission to ICU in most units will be patients who are at high risk of deteriorating and requiring initiation of life support or who are already receiving life support.…”