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The four suspected cases of H1N1 that have occurred in recent weeks in the city, including two fatalities, have sparked alarms health authorities, which recommend the community to take preventive measures to avoid outbreaks of influenza.
Alvaro Villanueva, infectious disease physician at a conference on the subject yesterday in the auditorium of the Hospital Carl, urged the community to when they detect influenza, reporting to the authorities to do the mop-up time and care for suspected cases of the virus A H1N1.
He said that preventive measures of spread of the virus are mainly related to the handling, rapid isolation of patients with compromised airways. "That is all that patient, a cough and stay with her for more than three days should see a doctor, because the increased cases of respiratory tract infections makes us be aware that the H1N1 virus has not yet has left us. "
He noted that the virus is being forgotten, but remembered that there were significant deaths and is the time for the server health and the wider community to be alert and that measures of respiratory isolation and hand washing compliance. "That is what most have served."
The other measure is already added, because there is vaccination against influenza. Villanueva said that the virus can be fatal, is mild, moderate and severe, within these three classifications is the ability to get to the ICU to treat these patients because it can rapidly progress to fatal forms.
He said we are in phase and it is characterized pospandemia because the virus is still circulating. Hence the need to continue having the same control measures and standards for the management of respiratory infections.
"We must not lower our guard, however, we must do more and better outreach, education and disease management.
Stay home if you feel sick, stay home from work or school and limit contact to avoid infecting others, "advises, Villanueva.
Luis Alfonso Mendez, resident physician of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of the ESE Cari said the latest suspected case of H1N1 was launched last August 8, came from Palmar de Varela and had a fatal outcome. He was an infant under three months who had a respiratory arrest, which evolved torpidamente with clinical deterioration, affecting multiple organs and despite all the measures adopted according to the protocol of the Ministry of Social Protection and management of all media in ICU, the patient had a favorable response and died on August 10. They are still awaiting the results of tests to confirm or rule out the virus.
http://www.elheraldo.co/local/la-alarma-por-ah1n1-no-ha-pasado-en-el-atl-ntico-34036
Alvaro Villanueva, infectious disease physician at a conference on the subject yesterday in the auditorium of the Hospital Carl, urged the community to when they detect influenza, reporting to the authorities to do the mop-up time and care for suspected cases of the virus A H1N1.
He said that preventive measures of spread of the virus are mainly related to the handling, rapid isolation of patients with compromised airways. "That is all that patient, a cough and stay with her for more than three days should see a doctor, because the increased cases of respiratory tract infections makes us be aware that the H1N1 virus has not yet has left us. "
He noted that the virus is being forgotten, but remembered that there were significant deaths and is the time for the server health and the wider community to be alert and that measures of respiratory isolation and hand washing compliance. "That is what most have served."
The other measure is already added, because there is vaccination against influenza. Villanueva said that the virus can be fatal, is mild, moderate and severe, within these three classifications is the ability to get to the ICU to treat these patients because it can rapidly progress to fatal forms.
He said we are in phase and it is characterized pospandemia because the virus is still circulating. Hence the need to continue having the same control measures and standards for the management of respiratory infections.
"We must not lower our guard, however, we must do more and better outreach, education and disease management.
Stay home if you feel sick, stay home from work or school and limit contact to avoid infecting others, "advises, Villanueva.
Luis Alfonso Mendez, resident physician of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of the ESE Cari said the latest suspected case of H1N1 was launched last August 8, came from Palmar de Varela and had a fatal outcome. He was an infant under three months who had a respiratory arrest, which evolved torpidamente with clinical deterioration, affecting multiple organs and despite all the measures adopted according to the protocol of the Ministry of Social Protection and management of all media in ICU, the patient had a favorable response and died on August 10. They are still awaiting the results of tests to confirm or rule out the virus.
http://www.elheraldo.co/local/la-alarma-por-ah1n1-no-ha-pasado-en-el-atl-ntico-34036