A COVID Dilemma: How to Manage Pregnancies in Case of Severe Respiratory Failure?

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Abstract

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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Di Lorenzo, P., Casella, C., Marisei, M., Sarno, L., Aquino, C. I., Osuna, E., … Niola, M. (2023). A COVID Dilemma: How to Manage Pregnancies in Case of Severe Respiratory Failure? Healthcare (Switzerland), 11(4). https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11040486

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