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Serious flu cases on the rise at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Monroe Carell Jr. Children?s Hospital at Vanderbilt
Middle Tennessee?s flu season is peaking later this year and is still going strong with no immediate sign of decline.
Doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Monroe Carell Jr. Children?s Hospital at Vanderbilt are seeing an increase in critically ill flu patients.
Currently, three pediatric and seven adult flu patients are being treated in Vanderbilt?s intensive care units. Four of these patients are confirmed to be infected with the H1N1 flu strain while three others are suspected to be H1N1-positive. Eight of these patients remain on ventilator support. One H1N1-related death occurred at VUMC during February.
Serious flu cases on the rise at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Monroe Carell Jr. Children?s Hospital at Vanderbilt
Middle Tennessee?s flu season is peaking later this year and is still going strong with no immediate sign of decline.
Doctors at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Monroe Carell Jr. Children?s Hospital at Vanderbilt are seeing an increase in critically ill flu patients.
Currently, three pediatric and seven adult flu patients are being treated in Vanderbilt?s intensive care units. Four of these patients are confirmed to be infected with the H1N1 flu strain while three others are suspected to be H1N1-positive. Eight of these patients remain on ventilator support. One H1N1-related death occurred at VUMC during February.