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Evaluation and Management of Seasonal Influenza in the Emergency Department

Seasonal influenza causes significant morbidity and mortality, primarily due to increased complication rates among the elderly population and patients with chronic diseases. Timely diagnosis of influenza and early recognition of an influenza outbreak or epidemic are key components in preventing infl...

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Autores principales: Afilalo, Marc, Stern, Errol, Oughton, Matthew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7127178/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22487108
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emc.2011.10.011
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description Seasonal influenza causes significant morbidity and mortality, primarily due to increased complication rates among the elderly population and patients with chronic diseases. Timely diagnosis of influenza and early recognition of an influenza outbreak or epidemic are key components in preventing influenza-related complications, hospitalizations, and deaths. Emergency departments are the most frequent points of entry for most influenza cases and are well positioned to identify and manage influenza community outbreaks and epidemics. Emergency departments need specific infection control measures to curb the spread of influenza in the Emergency Department and hospital during the influenza season.
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spelling pubmed-71271782020-04-08 Evaluation and Management of Seasonal Influenza in the Emergency Department Afilalo, Marc Stern, Errol Oughton, Matthew Emerg Med Clin North Am Article Seasonal influenza causes significant morbidity and mortality, primarily due to increased complication rates among the elderly population and patients with chronic diseases. Timely diagnosis of influenza and early recognition of an influenza outbreak or epidemic are key components in preventing influenza-related complications, hospitalizations, and deaths. Emergency departments are the most frequent points of entry for most influenza cases and are well positioned to identify and manage influenza community outbreaks and epidemics. Emergency departments need specific infection control measures to curb the spread of influenza in the Emergency Department and hospital during the influenza season. Elsevier Inc. 2012-05 2012-04-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7127178/ /pubmed/22487108 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.emc.2011.10.011 Text en Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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