• FluTrackers.com Inc. does not provide medical advice. Information on this web site is collected from various internet resources, and the FluTrackers board of directors makes no warranty to the safety, efficacy, correctness or completeness of the information posted on this site by any author or poster. The information collated here is for instructional and/or discussion purposes only and is NOT intended to diagnose or treat any disease, illness, or other medical condition. Every individual reader or poster should seek advice from their personal physician/healthcare practitioner before considering or using any interventions that are discussed on this website. By continuing to access this website you agree to consult your personal physican before using any interventions posted on this website, and you agree to hold harmless FluTrackers.com Inc., the board of directors, the members, and all authors and posters for any effects from use of any medication, supplement, vitamin or other substance, device, intervention, etc. mentioned in posts on this website, or other internet venues referenced in posts on this website.
  • We are not asking for any donations. Do not donate to any entity who says they are raising funds for us.

Epidemiological features of influenza in Canadian adult intensive care unit patients

tetano

Editor, Senior Moderator
Epidemiol Infect. 2015 Sep 18:1-10. [Epub ahead of print]
[h=1]Epidemiological features of influenza in Canadian adult intensive care unit patients.[/h] Taylor G[SUP]1[/SUP], Abdesselam K[SUP]2[/SUP], Pelude L[SUP]2[/SUP], Fernandes R[SUP]2[/SUP], Mitchell R[SUP]2[/SUP], McGEER A[SUP]3[/SUP], Frenette C[SUP]4[/SUP], Suh KN[SUP]5[/SUP], Wong A[SUP]6[/SUP], Katz K[SUP]7[/SUP], Wilkinson K[SUP]2[/SUP], Mersereau T[SUP]2[/SUP], Gravel D[SUP]2[/SUP]; Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program (CNISP).
[h=3]Author information[/h]

[h=3]Abstract[/h] To identify predictive factors and mortality of patients with influenza admitted to intensive care units (ICU) we carried out a prospective cohort study of patients hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed influenza in adult ICUs in a network of Canadian hospitals between 2006 and 2012. There were 626 influenza-positive patients admitted to ICUs over the six influenza seasons, representing 17?9% of hospitalized influenza patients, 3?1/10 000 hospital admissions. Variability occurred in admission rate and proportion of hospital influenza patients who were admitted to ICUs (proportion range by year: 11?7-29?4%; 21?3% in the 2009-2010 pandemic). In logistic regression models ICU patients were younger during the pandemic and post-pandemic period, and more likely to be obese than hospital non-ICU patients. Influenza B accounted for 14?2% of all ICU cases and had a similar ICU admission rate as influenza A. Influenza-related mortality was 17?8% in ICU patients compared to 2?0% in non-ICU patients.


[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] Critical care; epidemiology; hospital; influenza

PMID: 26384310 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
 
Back
Top Bottom