Denmark: ECDC update, Feb 18 2011

[Giuseppe]

Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control: http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publica...e_Overview.pdf

Denmark http://www.ssi.dk/sitecore/content/h...uenza-nyt.aspx

• Up to 14 February (week 6/2011), a cumulative total of 122 influenza patients have been reported by ICUs in Denmark with a median age of 54 years (and a range from 1 week to 83 years).
• Nine patients were admitted to an ICU in week 6/2011 compared with 19 new admissions in week 5.
• There is still pressure on the wards, reflected by the proportion of ICU beds used for influenza patients.
• On Monday 14 February 2011 at 8:00 am, 33 influenza patients were in ICUs, corresponding to 9.6% of the total number of occupied ICU beds in the country.
• This is compared with 10.0% the week before.
• Of the ICU patients, 102 were diagnosed with influenza A, 38 of whom were reported to be further subtyped as subtype H1N1.
• Twenty patients had an influenza B infection.
• Eight patients with influenza A and two patients with influenza B received extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
• Fifteen patients with confirmed influenza A and five with influenza B died.
• Nineteen patients were reported to be previously healthy and for another 33 patients no underlying condition was reported.
• For 70 patients one or more underlying conditions were described.
• One influenza patient was reported to be pregnant.

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