Severe acute respiratory failure in patients with influenza A (H1N1) virus infection admitted in intensive care.

摘要

Human pandemic influenza A (H1N1) virus has spread globally during 2009. On April 2009, the first cases were confirmed in Europe [1]. H1N1 developed mainly in subjects of less than 65 years contrary to the seasonal influenza, which usually developed in elderly patients of more than 65 years because elderly subjects are partly protected by old meetings with close stocks. The new cases of influenza A (H1N1) virus infection had been responsible for rapidly progressive disease of respiratory low tract, causing acute respiratory insufficiency, which develop severely acute distress respiratory syndrome, long stay in intensive care unit (ICU), and mortality in the last year [2]. In order to add to the growing body of clinical experience in managing this novel infection worldwide, we reviewed data of patients admitted to intensive care unit (ICU) with confirmed H1N1 infection during 2009.