Rong Chen, J. Chen, Qing-Tao Meng
Canadian Journal of Anesthesia/Journal canadien d'anesthésie, 2020
Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has rapidly spread throughout China and as of 8 March 2020 has spread to over 100 countries with 105,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus-related disease (COVID-19). The high infectivity and mortality of COVID-19 makes this a serious public health threat. Recent studies have confirmed that fever, dry cough, and fatigue are the main manifestations. Some patients have other symptoms, such as nasal congestion, runny nose, sore throat, myalgia, and diarrhea. Seriously-ill patients may develop dyspnea and/or hypoxemia one week after the onset of symptoms, and critically-ill patients can quickly progress to acute respiratory distress syndrome, septic shock, severe metabolic acidosis, coagulopathy, and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. We report a 27-yr-old pregnant woman at 36 weeks gestation who was admitted to the hospital with fever, dry cough, and fatigue as the main manifestations. Her SARSCoV-2 reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) test was positive and although she developed
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Field of study: Medicine