Covid 19 patient in Brazil: blood clots in placenta
Photo:Tarso Sarraf / afp
Markus Busch was on weekend duty when a pregnant Covid 19 patient was transferred to the intensive care unit at the Hannover Medical School at the beginning of May. "Everyone thought that the new type of corona virus is no more dangerous for pregnant women than it is for others," said the senior doctor. "When she was announced by phone, it was initially said that the woman was not too seriously ill."
In fact, the patient was already in mortal danger at this point. "Shortly afterwards, the emergency doctor barely managed to bring her to us alive," says Busch.
The pregnant woman was one of those Covid-19 patients who are now known as "happy hypoxics" - her threateningly low oxygen saturation in the blood went unnoticed for a long time because she had no shortness of breath. "It was all new territory back then," said Busch. Good intensive care medicine requires always being a few steps ahead of the disease. "But that didn't work in this case because we didn't know a lot about Covid-19."
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