Giuseppe
Emeritus
Source: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control: http://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/public...UR_Weekly_Influenza_Surveillance_Overview.pdf
Denmark http://www.ssi.dk/sitecore/content/home/aktuelt/nyhedsbreve/influenza-nyt.aspx
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Denmark http://www.ssi.dk/sitecore/content/home/aktuelt/nyhedsbreve/influenza-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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