Conclusion :
COVID-19 in pregnancy can be managed with early diagnosis and
treatment,C- section is indicated for obstetrics reasons only and if
SARI cases requiring immediate ventilator, step wise approach allows the
surgeon and as well as other health care workers to be adequately
prepared both mentally and physically and better and efficient patient
care can be provided.
- Disclosure of interest:
No conflicts to be disclosed, includes financial, personal,political,
intellectual,or religious.
- No funding has been sponsored by any organization
- Contribution to authorship:
- Dr Jasiya mh- has been working on this topic since 1 month, studying
various guidelines and forming a cumulative protocol to help and
benefit other surgeons to carry out hastle free C section, after being
posted to covid duty, implementing the same protocol and assessing to
see the outcome, which was beneficial.
- Dr Ashok Devoor- has been helping in various ways to guide,monitoring
and scrutnising and helping to get access to information, he has been
assisting in every step to get a succesfull outcome.
- Dr Huded Sridevi- has been a strong support, she has been improvising
the article and giving the necessary corrections, she has been very
encouraging and motivating.
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