Titre : | The midwife’s role in managing confirmed moderate-to-severe COVID-19 in pregnancy (2020) |
Auteurs : | Holly Mayo |
Type de document : | Article : texte imprimé |
Dans : | Midirs. Midwifery Digest (Vol. 30, n° 4, December 2020) |
Article en page(s) : | p. 487-493 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Sujets : |
Paramédical (MeSH) Contrôle des maladies transmissibles ; COVID-19 ; Crise sanitaire ; Directives de santé publique ; Femmes enceintes ; Grossesse ; Observation (surveillance clinique) ; Obstétrique ; Pandémies ; Précautions universelles ; Recherche ; Risque ; Sage-femme ; Surveillance ; Transmission de maladie infectieuse ; Virus du SRAS |
Résumé : |
In March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global pandemic for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Co V-2) (Knight et al 2020). It is believed SARS-Co V-2 originated from a seafood market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China where an environmental sample was obtained (Jin et al 2020).
COVID-19 is caused by SARS-Co V-2 and is classified to the β coronaviruses (Cascella et al 2020). SARS-Co V-2 shares 79.5 per cent of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-Co V) and 50 per cent of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-Co V) sequence identity (Jin et al 2020). With very limited information and evidence, treatment guidelines have been formulated on the basis of expert consensus, knowledge of previous viral pulmonary infections and SARS-Co V-2 physiology (Poon et al 2020, WHO 2020). To improve care provision for pregnant and postnatal women with COVID-19 midwives must have an understanding of the aetiology of this virus. |
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