Surgical emergencies confounded by H1N1 influenza infection - a plea for concern

The outbreak of the H1N1 influenza pandemic resulted in unprecedented, overwhelming exposure in the medical and lay media, with the obvious focus of healthcare providers being on patients in internal medicine or intensive care settings. Recently, we treated 3 patients with various surgical emergenci...

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Autores principales: Person, Benjamin, Bahouth, Hany, Brauner, Eran, Ben-Ishay, Offir, Bickel, Amitai, Kluger, Yoram S
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2838839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20193067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-5-6
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author Person, Benjamin
Bahouth, Hany
Brauner, Eran
Ben-Ishay, Offir
Bickel, Amitai
Kluger, Yoram S
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description The outbreak of the H1N1 influenza pandemic resulted in unprecedented, overwhelming exposure in the medical and lay media, with the obvious focus of healthcare providers being on patients in internal medicine or intensive care settings. Recently, we treated 3 patients with various surgical emergencies who were also diagnosed with active H1N1 influenza. The purpose of this report is to bring the issue of H1N1 flu in association with surgical emergencies to the forefront of the literature, and suggest that surgical diseases might be significantly accentuated in patients with H1N1 influenza.
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spelling pubmed-28388392010-03-16 Surgical emergencies confounded by H1N1 influenza infection - a plea for concern Person, Benjamin Bahouth, Hany Brauner, Eran Ben-Ishay, Offir Bickel, Amitai Kluger, Yoram S World J Emerg Surg Case report The outbreak of the H1N1 influenza pandemic resulted in unprecedented, overwhelming exposure in the medical and lay media, with the obvious focus of healthcare providers being on patients in internal medicine or intensive care settings. Recently, we treated 3 patients with various surgical emergencies who were also diagnosed with active H1N1 influenza. The purpose of this report is to bring the issue of H1N1 flu in association with surgical emergencies to the forefront of the literature, and suggest that surgical diseases might be significantly accentuated in patients with H1N1 influenza. BioMed Central 2010-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2838839/ /pubmed/20193067 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-5-6 Text en Copyright ©2010 Person et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Surgical emergencies confounded by H1N1 influenza infection - a plea for concern
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title_fullStr Surgical emergencies confounded by H1N1 influenza infection - a plea for concern
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title_short Surgical emergencies confounded by H1N1 influenza infection - a plea for concern
title_sort surgical emergencies confounded by h1n1 influenza infection - a plea for concern
topic Case report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2838839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20193067
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-5-6
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