Wednesday 14 January 2015

Ebola health workers face life or death decision on pregnant women: experts

A pregnant woman suspected of contracting Ebola is lifted by stretcher into an ambulance in Freetown By Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Health workers treating women with pregnancy-related problems in Ebola-hit countries have to make life or death decisions for their patients and themselves, experts said on Wednesday. Health workers have very little time to decide whether a pregnant women with complications is free of Ebola and should have the necessary intervention, or may have Ebola and should have minimal procedures, experts said in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. ...




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