An Ohio mother who birthed a baby on a ventilator has beaten the coronavirus disease.
27-year-old Megan Sites was 7-months pregnant when she started having breathing difficulties. It was her second pregnancy.
The mother was then rushed to the emergency department of Joint Township in Ohio on 1st April. After that, she was put on the ventilator when her tests showed that her lungs were clotted due to the coronavirus disease.
Then, she was transferred to Dayton’s Miami Valley Hospital but her condition worsened rapidly because the ventilator had to be removed.
Megan described the situation to be extremely hard on her and she even believed she would not be able to make it through. She revealed that everything in her body hurt, it hurt to move, to cough, and to breather.
On 8th April, doctors phoned her husband Donny who could not see her because of social distancing measures. He was told that a ventilator could be fixed again under sedation so that Megan reaches the 30-weeks pregnancy mark.
But only 20 minutes later, Donny received a heart-breaking call that one of Megan’s lungs had collapsed and the doctors needed to deliver her child the next day if she survived.
Megan was then rushed into surgery at only 29 weeks and 6 days pregnant and the doctors delivered her baby boy by c-section. The baby was then whisked to neonatal intensive care.
Megan was provided with only a 40% chance of survival and had undergone a near-last-resort life support form.
Dr. Suzanne Bennett, a critical care anesthesiologist said that an EMCO ventilator was fixed to temporarily replace her lungs and heart’s function.
After that, the mother was taken to Cincinnati Medical Center by an ambulance. However, after 5 days on the machine, Megan woke up but did not have any recollection of giving birth because she was under sedation.
The machine had never been used on a pregnant patient. Megan was allowed to meet her son Jameson after 10 days.
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