A 20-year-old woman diagnosed with corona virus was connected to a respirator in a separate ward at Soroka Hospital • The patient is in critical condition
The midwife was connected to the soul machine
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Liron Moldovan / Archive
Following infection with the corona virus, a 20-year-old woman who arrived at Soroka Hospital was evacuated to the intensive care unit.
The midwife was resuscitated and connected to a heart-lung machine as her condition deteriorated.
Prof. Reli Hershkovich, chairwoman of the Soroka Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, said: "Since the outbreak of the plague, most mothers throughout the country who have been diagnosed with coronary heart disease have not developed any symptoms or serious illness.
This is a rare case in which a young woman, usually healthy and without background illnesses - is in a serious condition after being infected with the virus. " And the required isolation. "
Dr. Uri Galanta, a senior physician in the Corona Intensive Care Unit, noted that "recently we have seen an increase in the number of younger patients than in the 'first wave' and in more difficult patients.
Some patients do not have background illnesses as in this case.
This emphasizes that it is not possible to know who will develop a life-threatening serious illness.
We all have a civic responsibility in adhering to the guidelines of wearing masks and preventing crowds. "
This is the first case in which a mother is hospitalized while connected to an Acme machine.
However, there were a few more isolated cases of mothers who became infected in Corona and got into a difficult situation, in which a 26-year-old woman who was hospitalized at the end of March in Sheba and after three weeks was released to her home.
Another case was of a 30-year-old woman giving birth in Ichilov.
Additional cases of maternity respiration were recorded at Safed, Meir and Kaplan hospitals.
Data collected from maternity wards in six hospitals in Israel show that there were five complications to the point of requiring resuscitation out of 150 positive mothers in Corona.
Prof. Yoav Yinon, chairman of the Society for Maternal and Fetal Medicine and director of the fetal medicine unit in Sheba, said: "From the research literature and from what is known so far, it appears that corona in pregnancy is not a more serious disease than in the general population.
Most pregnant women are asymptomatic.
In my estimation, about one percent or slightly more of the pregnant women reach the need for respiration.
Currently the data show that pregnancy does not aggravate corona and the disease probably does not affect the development of the pregnancy or the fetus.
Despite this, it is important that pregnant women avoid unnecessary exposure in places where there are many people. "