Home About Us Contact Us

 

Table of Content - Volume 3 Issue 3- September 2016


 

A study of various factors associated with outcomes in the swine flu patients at tertiary health care centre

 

Vinod Ramchandra Baviskar1, Nitesh Suresh Chhajed2*

 

1Associate Professor, 2Assistant Professor, Department of General Medicine, Dr. Ulhas Patil Medical College and Hospital, Maharashtra, INDIA.

Email: drniteshschhajed@gmail.com

 

REFERENCES

  1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Update: Novel Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection: Mexico, March- May, 2009. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2009; 58: 585-9.
  2. Dawood FS, Jain S, Finelli L, Shaw MW, Lindstrom S, Garten RJ, et al. Emergence of a novel swine-origin influenza A (H1N1) virus in humans. N Engl J Med 2009; 360: 2605-15.
  3. Assessing the severity of an influenza pandemic, WHO. Available at: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/ swine-flu/ assess/disease_swineflu_assess_20090511/en/. Ac-cessed on: March 14th, 2016
  4. Rana H, Parikh P, Shah AN, Gandhi S. Epidemiology and clinical outcome of H1N1 in Gujarat from July 2009 to March 2010. J Assoc Physicians India. 2012 Feb; 60:95-7.
  5. Feigin TbopId, Philadelphia, Lippincott, company, Page. No. 2783-2795.
  6. Polit TboNrpam, 5th edition, Philadelphia JBLc, 1995, Page. No - 42.
  7. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India. Available on http://mohfw.nic.in/press_releases_on_swine_flu.htm. Accessed. on 23/05/2012
  8. United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Interim guidance on case definitions to be used for investigations of novel influenza A (H1N1) cases. http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/casedef.htm, June 2, 2009.
  9. CDC Protocol of Real Time RTPCR for Influenza A (H1N1). Available from: http://www.who.int/csr/resources/ publications/ swineflu/ CDCRealtimeRTPCR_SwineH1Assay - 2009_20090430.pdf, accessed on June 10, 2015.
  10. Chaudhari AI, Zaveri JR, Thakor N. Profile of confirmed H1N1 virus infected patients admitted in the swine flu isolation ward of tertiary care hospitals of Baroda district, Gujarat, India. Int J Res Med Sci 2015; 3(9):2174-80.
  11. Patel Bhavin D SVS, Patel Ameekumari B, Modi Bhautik P. Clinico-Epidemiological Correlates of Hospitalized H1N1 Pneumonitis Cases in A Teaching Hospital of Western India During 2009-2010 Pandemic. NJMR. 2012; 2(2):218-22.
  12. Chudasama RK, Patel UV, Verma PB, Agarwal P, Bhalodiya S, Dholakiya D. Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of 2009 pandemic influenza A in hospitalized paediatric patients of the Saurashtra region, India. World J Pediatr. 2012; 8(4):321-7.
  13. V. R. Malkar USJ, M. M. Raut. Clinico-epidemiological profile of patients of h1n1 influenza (swine flu) virus infection at a tertiary care hospital in Maharashtra. Int J Biol Med Res. 2012; 3(3).
  14. Patel A, Naik E, Patel K, Patel K, Patel K, Mehta P, et al. Clinical outcome of novel H1N1 (Swine Flu)-infected patients during 2009 pandemic at tertiary referral hospital in western India. Journal of Global Infectious Diseases.2013; 5(3):93-7.
  15. Asmitaa A. Mmehtaa, V. Anil Kumaar, Ssuresh G. Nanair, Fini K Joseph, Gireesh Kumaar, Sasanjjeev V K. Ssinggh. Clinical Profile of Patients Admitted with Swine-Origin Influenza A (H1N1) Virus Infection: An Experience from A Tertiary Care Hospital. Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research. 2013 Oct, Vol-7(10): 2227-2230.
  16. Bharti Malhotra, Ruchi Singh, Pratibha Sharma, Deepa Meena, Jyoti Gupta, Aditya Atreya, B. R. Meena. Epidemiological and clinical profile of influenza A (H1N1) 2009 virus infections during 2015 epidemic in Rajasthan. Indian J Med Res 144, December 2016, pp 918-923.
  17. Garske T, Legrand J, Donnelly CA, Ward H, Cauchemez S, Fraser C, et al. Assessing the severity of the novel influenza A/H1N1 pandemic. BMJ 2009; 339:b2840.
  18. Jain S, Kamimoto L, Bramley AM, Schmitz AM, Benoit SR, Louie J, et al. Hospitalized patients with 2009 H1N1 influenza in the United States, April-June 2009. N Engl J Med 2009; 361:1935-44.
  19. Kim SH, Hong SB, Yun SC, Choi WI, Ahn JJ, Lee YJ, et al. Corticosteroid treatment in critically ill patients with pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009 infection: Analytic strategy using propensity scores. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2011; 183:1207-14.
  20. Government of India Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Guidelines for Categorization of Influenza A H1N1 Cases and Case Management. Available from: http://www.mohfw-h1n1.nic.in/Guidelines.html.