Forty-year-old no vax infected in pregnancy, urgently transferred from Trieste to Verona: now she is fighting to save two lives

Doctors are using the Ecmo: the most advanced system for acute respiratory failure

TRIESTE. In the intensive care unit of the Cattinara hospital, they are convinced that they are facing the most dramatic case dealt with so far. Forty-five years old, from Trieste, not vaccinated. She has caught Covid and is pregnant. He now has severe respiratory failure. They intubated her, she is risking her life. And the fetus she is carrying, if she is saved, could suffer brain damage because she has not received sufficient oxygenation since her mother became ill.