Severe SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Pediatric Patient Requiring Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Shannon M Flood; Christina M Osborne; Blake Martin; S Christopher Derderian; Erin Stenson; Joseph A Grubenhoff

doi:10.1155/2020/8885022

Severe SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Pediatric Patient Requiring Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Case Rep Pediatr. 2020 Oct 9:2020:8885022. doi: 10.1155/2020/8885022. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Shannon M Flood^{1

2}, Christina M Osborne^{2

3

4}, Blake Martin^{2

4}, S Christopher Derderian⁵, Erin Stenson^{2

4}, Joseph A Grubenhoff^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Children's Hospital Colorado, Section of Emergency Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
² University of Colorado, School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Aurora, CO, USA.
³ Children's Hospital Colorado, Section of Infectious Diseases, Aurora, CO, USA.
⁴ Children's Hospital Colorado, Section of Critical Care Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
⁵ Children's Hospital Colorado, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Aurora, CO, USA.

Abstract

The overwhelming majority of pediatric cases of SARS-CoV-2 infection are mild or asymptomatic with only a handful of pediatric deaths reported. We present a case of severe COVID-19 infection in a pediatric patient with signs of hyperinflammation and consumptive coagulopathy requiring intubation and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and eventual death due to ECMO complications.

Publication types

Case Reports