Novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19. Practice recommendations for obstetric anaesthesia: what we have learned thus far

In late 2019 a pneumonia of unknown cause, subsequently identified as caused by a coronavirus, was first detected in Wuhan, China. The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses named it the ‘severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2’, or SARS-CoV-2, as it is related to the virus that caused the ‘Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome’ (SARS) outbreak in 2003.1 On 11 February 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the official name of the disease it caused wou ld be ‘COVID-19’, a shortened version of ‘coronavirus disease 2019’.
Source: International Journal of Obstetric Anesthesia - Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Tags: Review article Source Type: research