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A COVID Dilemma: How to Manage Pregnancies in Case of Severe Respiratory Failure?
To date, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world’s health, economics and politics is still heavy, and efforts to mitigate virus transmission have caused remarkable disruption. From the early onset of the pandemic, generated by SARS-CoV-2 spread, the scientific community was aware of its imp...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9957288/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36833020 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11040486 |
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author | Di Lorenzo, Pierpaolo Casella, Claudia Marisei, Mariagrazia Sarno, Laura Aquino, Carmen Imma Osuna, Eduardo Guida, Maurizio Niola, Massimo |
author_facet | Di Lorenzo, Pierpaolo Casella, Claudia Marisei, Mariagrazia Sarno, Laura Aquino, Carmen Imma Osuna, Eduardo Guida, Maurizio Niola, Massimo |
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description | To date, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world’s health, economics and politics is still heavy, and efforts to mitigate virus transmission have caused remarkable disruption. From the early onset of the pandemic, generated by SARS-CoV-2 spread, the scientific community was aware of its impact on vulnerable individuals, including pregnant women. The purpose of this paper is to highlight scientific pitfalls and ethical dilemmas emerging from management of severe respiratory distress in pregnant women in order to add evidence to this topic through an ethical debate. In the here-presented paper, three cases of severe respiratory syndrome are analyzed. No specific therapeutic protocol was available to guide physicians in a cost–benefit balance, and unequivocal conduct was not a priori suggested from scientific evidence. However, vaccines’ advent, viral variants lurking on the horizon and other possible pandemic challenges make it necessary to maximize the experience gained through these difficult years. Antenatal management of pregnancies complicated by COVID-19 infection with severe respiratory failure is still heterogeneous and ethical concerns must be pointed out. |
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spelling | pubmed-99572882023-02-25 A COVID Dilemma: How to Manage Pregnancies in Case of Severe Respiratory Failure? Di Lorenzo, Pierpaolo Casella, Claudia Marisei, Mariagrazia Sarno, Laura Aquino, Carmen Imma Osuna, Eduardo Guida, Maurizio Niola, Massimo Healthcare (Basel) Article To date, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world’s health, economics and politics is still heavy, and efforts to mitigate virus transmission have caused remarkable disruption. From the early onset of the pandemic, generated by SARS-CoV-2 spread, the scientific community was aware of its impact on vulnerable individuals, including pregnant women. The purpose of this paper is to highlight scientific pitfalls and ethical dilemmas emerging from management of severe respiratory distress in pregnant women in order to add evidence to this topic through an ethical debate. In the here-presented paper, three cases of severe respiratory syndrome are analyzed. No specific therapeutic protocol was available to guide physicians in a cost–benefit balance, and unequivocal conduct was not a priori suggested from scientific evidence. However, vaccines’ advent, viral variants lurking on the horizon and other possible pandemic challenges make it necessary to maximize the experience gained through these difficult years. Antenatal management of pregnancies complicated by COVID-19 infection with severe respiratory failure is still heterogeneous and ethical concerns must be pointed out. MDPI 2023-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9957288/ /pubmed/36833020 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11040486 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Di Lorenzo, Pierpaolo Casella, Claudia Marisei, Mariagrazia Sarno, Laura Aquino, Carmen Imma Osuna, Eduardo Guida, Maurizio Niola, Massimo A COVID Dilemma: How to Manage Pregnancies in Case of Severe Respiratory Failure? |
title | A COVID Dilemma: How to Manage Pregnancies in Case of Severe Respiratory Failure? |
title_full | A COVID Dilemma: How to Manage Pregnancies in Case of Severe Respiratory Failure? |
title_fullStr | A COVID Dilemma: How to Manage Pregnancies in Case of Severe Respiratory Failure? |
title_full_unstemmed | A COVID Dilemma: How to Manage Pregnancies in Case of Severe Respiratory Failure? |
title_short | A COVID Dilemma: How to Manage Pregnancies in Case of Severe Respiratory Failure? |
title_sort | covid dilemma: how to manage pregnancies in case of severe respiratory failure? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9957288/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36833020 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11040486 |
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