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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Yeung, Keith SK
• Kwok, CY
• Chow, Y F

Titel

Anaesthesia in a patient with COVID-19 undergoing elective lower segment caesarean section: a case report

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• Hong Kong medical journal = Xianggang yi xue za zhi, 2021-06, Vol.27 (3), p.210

Ort / Verlag

Hong Kong: Hong Kong Academy of Medicine

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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• Case report In July 2020, a 35-year-old pregnant woman (weight 70 kg, height 160 cm, body mass index 27.3) at 34+3 weeks of gestation presented to our hospital with upper respiratory tract infection symptoms including dry cough and runny nose for 4 days. Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction analysis of the patient's deep throat saliva sample was positive for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Spinal anaesthesia offered a good alternative to general anaesthesia in a planned setting, as illustrated by a case series from Wuhan, China, of 49 caesarean deliveries with good blood pressure control achieved under spinal anaesthesia.4 Early data suggest that pregnant women do not develop more severe COVID-19.5 In a study of 241 births in the United States, approximately 30% of mothers with COVID-19 became symptomatic, 7.1% required intensive care unit admission, 3.7% required intubation, and 0.7% progressed to a critical condition. [...]there is wide variation in the interpretatio