Clinical pediatrics
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Clinical pediatrics · Jan 2011
Multicenter StudyClinical features of a Dutch cohort of critically ill children due to the 2009 new influenza A H1N1 pandemic.
This study describes the clinical course, treatment, and outcome of 13 critically ill children due to infection with new influenza A H1N1, admitted to 2 pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) in the northwestern part of the Netherlands. ⋯ In a Dutch cohort of 13 critically ill children due to infection with new influenza (H1N1), respiratory (100%) and circulatory (54%) failure characterized the course of this infection in most of these children. All children survived.