Giuseppe
Emeritus
Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), full PDF document http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/public...UR_Weekly_Influenza_Surveillance_Overview.pdf
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- Denmark:
- Up to 24 January (week 3/2011), a cumulative total of 61 influenza patients have been reported by intensive care units (ICUs) in Denmark with a median age of 54 years (range 15 months to 83 years).
- Thirteen patients were admitted to an ICU in week 3/2011 compared with 19 new admissions in week 2. There is, however, still an increasing pressure on the wards, reflected by the increasing proportion of ICU beds used for influenza patients.
- On Monday 24 January 2011 at 8:00 am, 33 influenza patients were in ICUs, corresponding with 9.5% of the total number of occupied ICU beds in the country, compared with 7.5% in the week before.
- Of the ICU patients, 53 were diagnosed with influenza A, 20 of whom were reported to be further subtyped as subtype H1N1.
- Eight patients had an influenza B infection.
- Five patients with influenza A and one patient with Influenza B received extracorporal membrane oxygenation (ECMO).
- Seven patients, all with confirmed influenza A died.
- Ten patients were reported to be previously healthy people and for another 14 patients no underlying condition was reported.
- For 37 patients one or more underlying conditions were described.
- No influenza patients were reported to be pregnant.
- Initial alignment with the Danish Vaccination Registry showed that 12 of the 61 patients had received the 2010/2011 seasonal influenza vaccine between week 39 and 46 of 2010. The other 49 patients were either not vaccinated between week 39 and 46 of 2010 or had not been reported to the registry.
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