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Woman 19-weeks Pregnant with Twins is Saved from Severe COVID-19 Illness
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By Randy Reed, Operations Manager
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March 16, 2021

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A few days after Thanksgiving, Dallas Selling — 19-weeks pregnant with twins — started feeling sick with a fever and had difficulty breathing. For days she tried to “tough” it out, but she finally gave in on Dec. 2 and called an ambulance. She was taken to Clovis Community Medical Center’s emergency department.

“Obviously no one wants to go to the hospital, but you have to listen to your body,” Selling said. “I’ve always been the type to push myself really hard … but you know when something is wrong.”

Because of her coronavirus infection, Selling’s lungs just weren’t able to take in enough oxygen for her and the babies, so the next day she was transferred to Community Regional Medical Center for a higher level of care. The team from the Valley’s only high risk antepartum center was standing by to help the intensive care team.

At Community Regional, Selling was put on a ventilator when her oxygen levels continued to drop. For almost three weeks she continued to decline. Fearing the worst, her physicians and husband decided she needed extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) treatment in order to save her and the babies.

Recently released information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that pregnant women are at higher risk for complications from COVID-19 infection. The CDC says COVID-19-positive pregnant women who are symptomatic are two to four times more likely than non-pregnant women of similar age to develop severe illness. These women are more likely to require ICU admission, ECMO treatment or mechanical ventilation, and have a 70% higher risk of death than non-pregnant women.

Soon after starting ECMO, Selling began to show signs of improvement.

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