Sweden : 50-year-old patient send home with pneumonia, died 2 days later

[Gert van der Hoek]

Man i d?d av svininfluensa

En man i 50-?rs?ldern har avlidit till f?ljd av svininfluensa.

- Han uppfattade inte sig sj?lv tillh?ra n?gon riskgrupp men vi skall utreda fallet, s?ger chefl?kare Monica Ericson-Sj?str?m.

En man i 50-?rs?ldern fr?n en mindre ort utanf?r G?teborg har avlidit till f?ljd av svininfluensan. Mannen s?kte v?rd p? en v?rdcentral l?rdagen den 31 oktober och bed?mdes d? ha lunginflammation som behandlades med antibiotika och luftr?rsvidgande l?kemedel. Den 2 november avled mannen i sitt hem, och p? fredagen konstaterades det att d?dsorsaken var svininfluensa.

- Mannen uppfattade inte sig sj?lv tillh?ra n?gon riskgrupp utan s?g sig som frisk. Dock var mannen r?relsehindrad, och den utredning som nu ?r p?b?rjad f?r visa om detta faktum p?verkade sjukdomsf?rloppet, s?ger Monica Ericson-Sj?str?m.


One of the dead of swine influenza

A man in his 50s has died as a result of swine flu.

- He did not himself belong to any risk group but we shall investigate the case, says chief medical officer Monica Ericson Sjostrom.


A man in his 50s from a small town outside Gothenburg have died from the flu. The man sought care at a medical center on Saturday, 31 October and was assessed as having pneumonia treated with antibiotics and reliever medications.

On 2 November, the man died at his home, and on Friday it was found that the cause of death was swine flu.

- The man did not understand themselves as belonging to one division, but saw themselves as healthy.

However, the man was disabled, and the investigation that is now longer may show whether this fact affected the course of the disease, "says Monica Ericson Sjostrom.

http://www.expressen.se/Nyheter/1.1771245/man-i-dod-av-svininfluensa

 

[Gert van der Hoek]

Re: Sweden reports 5th (?) swine flu death

Re: Sweden reports 5th (?) swine flu death

google translated

50-year-old from Tjörn sent home - died

The wheelchair user husband sought treatment last weekend, but
sent home with a diagnosis of pneumonia.

Two days later he was dead - the swine flu.

And more deaths are expected, they Smittskyddsinstitutet.
- It is not enough to avoid, "says state epidemiologist
Annika Linde.


November 6, 2009

The County Council of Västra Götaland confirmed yesterday that the wheelchair user husband from Tjörn outside Gothenburg died of swine flu. The man, who was in his 50s, sought care on-call Center in Stenungsund last Saturday. There he was diagnosed with pneumonia
and treated with antibiotics and reliever medications. On Monday, he died at his home.

"The whole thing is deeply tragic"

Yesterday found the county council that the cause was swine flu.

- The man did not understand themselves as belonging to one division, but saw themselves as healthy. However, the man was disabled, and the investigation that is now longer may show whether this fact affected the course of the disease, "says Monica Ericson Sjostrom, chief physician at the primary health care in southern Bohuslän.

In a press release she says:
- The whole thing is deeply tragic and we feel a great sympathy with the relatives.

"We must tighten controls"
After his death in Tjörn, the first having occurred in Västra Götaland, says bio-call doctor Leif Dotevall:
- Now we tighten controls in order to capture those who are seriously ill.
- For them it is not enough to stay home and drink water, they must be cared for.

According to Annika Linde, state epidemiologist in the Infectious Diseases Institute, at no greater risk because they are disabled.

- If you can not breathe properly, if you are disabled in this way, so
it may affect. That you can not walk, or sit in a wheelchair for reasons which only affects
legs, it has not been seen as a risk factor.

Infectious Diseases Institute estimates that between 130 000 and 300 000 Swedes now have been infected. As the flu spread will also increase the risk of further deaths.

- That there will be some of it I think is inevitable, "said Annika Linde.
- But we hope you we in that we have had time to vaccinate as many of the divisions that it is not going to be quite as many as it could have been otherwise.

"I hope that there are fewer"
Was it feared that between 30 and 100 Swedes would die in swine influenza. But it was, according to Annika Linde, whether Sweden would refrain from mass vaccination.

- Now we do not know how far we have managed to bring down these numbers. We can not count on it. We only hope that there will be fewer, "she says.

Sweden has had few or many deaths so far?
- I would think that we are somewhere in the middle. Ireland, England and Norway are ahead
us. Then there are countries, especially in Central Europe that are behind us.

http://www.expressen.se/nyheter/1.1771470/50-aring-fran-tjorn-skickades-hem-dog

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Sweden : 50-year-old patient send home with pneumonia, died 2 days later

Man Turned Away from Hospital Dies of Swine Flu
A 49 year old man has died from Swine flu in Sweden. The man sought care at Jourcentralen in Stenungsund last Saturday. He wasn't admitted but was sent home with antibiotics and died two days later.

Test results on Friday confirmed that he had died from Swine flu. The man was not believed to be in one of the rsik groups.The local health department is now investigating.

"In hindsight it's obvious that the man should have been admitted. We will now look at the whole situation and see if there was anything that should have been done better, " said Monica Ericson-Sj?str?m, Chief doctor for Prim?rv?rden in South Bohusl?n.

The man's death was the first in the West G?taland region.
http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/international/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?programid=2054&artikel=3221599