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H1N1 Outbreak In Ann Arbor: “These Patients Are Very, Very Ill”
January 2, 2014 7:07 PM
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ANN ARBOR (WWJ) – Health officials at University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor say they’re dealing with a severe outbreak of the flu.
A minimum of six people were in the intensive care unit on Thursday, as doctors dealt with what was believed to be multiple cases of H1N1, also know as “Swine Flu.”
According to Dr. Lena Napolitano, director of the University of Michigan’s Surgical Critical Care and Intensive Care units, several  patients — mostly young or middle-aged — are not doing well.
“They are on very advanced life support,” Napolitano told WWJ Newsradio 950.
“There are other intensive care units — our medical ICU, our pediatric ICU — who also have other patients,” she added.” And I don’t have those exact numbers; but suffice it to say, it is a striking increase, and these patients are very, very ill.”
Napolitano said the outbreak reminds her of a similar outbreak of the H1N1 virus in 2009.
Many of the patients, she said, are in kidney failure and on continuous bedside dialysis.
“Most of them are requiring medications because their blood pressures are very low,” Napolitano said. “They’re in septic shock.”

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Pixie Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: June 05 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 19668	Post Options Post Reply Quote Pixie Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Michigan Severe outbreak Posted: January 03 2014 at 2:12pm
	http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/01/02/h1n1-outbreak-in-ann-arbor-these-patients-are-very-very-ill/ Local H1N1 Outbreak In Ann Arbor: “These Patients Are Very, Very Ill” January 2, 2014 7:07 PM Share on email 84 View Comments Related Tags: flu, swine flu, University of Michigan Hospital white space2 H1N1 Outbreak In Ann Arbor: These Patients Are Very, Very Ill ANN ARBOR (WWJ) – Health officials at University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor say they’re dealing with a severe outbreak of the flu. A minimum of six people were in the intensive care unit on Thursday, as doctors dealt with what was believed to be multiple cases of H1N1, also know as “Swine Flu.” According to Dr. Lena Napolitano, director of the University of Michigan’s Surgical Critical Care and Intensive Care units, several patients — mostly young or middle-aged — are not doing well. “They are on very advanced life support,” Napolitano told WWJ Newsradio 950. “There are other intensive care units — our medical ICU, our pediatric ICU — who also have other patients,” she added.” And I don’t have those exact numbers; but suffice it to say, it is a striking increase, and these patients are very, very ill.” Napolitano said the outbreak reminds her of a similar outbreak of the H1N1 virus in 2009. Many of the patients, she said, are in kidney failure and on continuous bedside dialysis. “Most of them are requiring medications because their blood pressures are very low,” Napolitano said. “They’re in septic shock.”

jdljr1 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: June 05 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1621	Post Options Post Reply Quote jdljr1 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: January 03 2014 at 3:40pm
	Not good, but fits the pattern. A big increase in case numbers intensity, followed by full use of all available EMCO machines as people start to die. Who or where is next?
	John L

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	Why is the CDC not up to date on its influenza activity level reporting? Look at Michigan http://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/main.html
	If you have one foot on yesterday...and one foot on tomorrow...You are "piddling" on today!....Take time to smell the Flowers....

Pixie Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: June 05 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 19668	Post Options Post Reply Quote Pixie Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: January 04 2014 at 12:32pm
	3 more die of H1N1 flu in Michigan, with a dozen others on life support 8:08 PM, January 3, 2014 \| By Robin Erb Potentially deadly H1N1 — the influenza virus strain behind the 2009 pandemic — continues its resurgence in Michigan, with three more deaths reported by hospital officials. About a dozen adults and children — patients who previously were healthy — have been on life support at the University of Michigan Health System’s hospitals because of the virus, according to the hospital system. Three adults have died, according to a health system spokeswoman. An infant from central Michigan also has died from H1N1, according to the Michigan Department of Community Health. “These deaths are among previously healthy individuals. This is not the group that the public usually thinks about as being susceptible to serious illness with influenza,” said Dr. Matt Davis, chief medical executive for the state health department and a U-M professor of pediatrics and communicable diseases and of internal medicine. Many of the hospitalized patients were transferred to U-M from other hospitals because their flu was so severe. In addition to traditional ventilators, the U-M health system offers extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, or ECMO, technology for patients who can no longer breathe on their own. The machinery supports not only the patient’s lungs, as a ventilator does, but also the heart, Davis said. It appears the sickest patients either didn’t get the flu vaccine or received it shortly before getting sick, said Dr. Sandro Cinti, an infectious diseases doctor at U-M and at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. It takes two full weeks for the vaccine to be fully effective.