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    • To advocate for the protection of personal ventilators in triage protocols.

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    • Ethical argumentation regarding bodily and social integrity.

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    • Reallocating personal ventilators constitutes a direct assault on patient integrity.
    • Personal ventilators should be excluded from reallocation pools.

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