Open AccessH1N1-infected patients in ICU and their clinical outcome
Author(s) -
Talkad Chandrashekar Nagesh Kumar,
N Shivakumar,
Telugu Sitaram Deepak,
Rashmi Krishnappa,
Melur Shivakumar Goutam,
Vivek Ganigar
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
north american journal of medical sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2250-1541
pISSN - 1947-2714
DOI - 10.4103/1947-2714.100984
Subject(s) - medicine , outcome (game theory) , intensive care medicine , pediatrics , emergency medicine , mathematics , mathematical economics
The swine flu (H1N1) with rapid spread and panic in population is truly global pandemic, affected mainly younger population. There is need to accumulate evidence regarding patient's intensive care parameters for effective management of newer strains of influenza viral infections. Hence an observed retrospective record analysis of confirmed H1N1 patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) of a tertiary care centre is done.