Clinical practice guidelines for influenza

Download or read book Clinical practice guidelines for influenza written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2024-09-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of these updated clinical guidelines for influenza is to assist clinicians in the care of persons with suspected or confirmed influenza virus infection. Recommendations include the management of both severe and non-severe influenza and also the use of antiviral medications to prevent influenza virus infection in individuals exposed to the virus in the previous 48 hours. This update applies to patients with seasonal influenza viruses, pandemic influenza viruses and novel influenza A viruses known to cause severe illness in infected humans (zoonotic influenza), such as avian influenza A(H5N1), A(H5N6) and A(H7N9). This update also includes baseline risk estimates for hospitalization and death pooled from observational studies, and proposed definitions of patients at high or extremely high risk of developing severe influenza, so as to enable the recommendations to be targeted appropriately.