ABSTRACT
Background and Aims: COVID-19 has been a globally concerning pandemic affecting more than 20 million people worldwide. Due to physiological and anatomical changes, pregnant women are more susceptible to viral respiratory infections. Although the clinical and radiological features of COVID positive pregnant and non-pregnant women are comparable, literature pertaining to the clinical presentation and the outcomes in COVID positive pregnant women are being researched upon. Aims and Objectives: The main objective is to assess the lung involvement in COVID-19 positive pregnant women based on their clinical presentation and CT imaging features. The secondary aim is to study their clinical outcomes based on the above findings. Methods: This was a retrospective study carried out on COVID-19 positive pregnant women admitted to our hospital over 6 months (from May 2020 to October 2020). The collected data were analyzed with IBM.SPSS statistics software 23.0 Version. Results: There were a total of 480 COVID positive antenatal women detected Out of 480 patients 75.8% (364) were asymptomatic, one hundred and two patients (21.3%) presented with mild symptoms such as fever, dry cough, runny nose, loss of taste/smell without any breathing difficulty. Fourteen patients (2.9%) were identified in the moderate to severe symptomatic category with lung involvement with a 95% Confidence Intervals between 1.41 and 4.42. Three patients sustained mortality, the overall Mortality rate being 0.6%. Conclusion: The majority of the COVID positive antenatal women are asymptomatic or present with mild symptoms as detected from this study. Only a small proportion (2.9%) were identified with respiratory compromise. Although their infectivity rate is quite high, 99.4% of the population were cured and discharged.
ABSTRACT
In the fast-paced world, Pandemic like Covid-19, people must take care of themselves and others. Personal care has been ignored in the world and mainly in India. “Virtual Health Assistance System” tries to become a health assistant in these times when people can contract disease very easily. It is also found out that obesity has increased during the lockdown. This can be a potential threat in the future as “too much of anything is good for nothing”. This is also amplified by the fact that people have stopped being afraid of the Covid-19. This must be resolved immediately. People should lead a healthy and disease-free life. This can be controlled by a device that is used the most – Smartphone. People using smartphones can be notified about proper diet and hydration, proper hygiene and exercise and a new way to lead a healthy lifestyle.