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Benjamin Person1, Hany Bahouth, Eran Brauner

  • 1Department of General and Acute Care Surgery, Rambam Healthcare Campus, POB 9602, Haifa, 31096, Israel. b_person@rambam.health.gov.il.

World Journal of Emergency Surgery : WJES
|March 3, 2010
PubMed

The outbreak of the H1N1 influenza pandemic resulted in unprecedented, overwhelming exposure in the medical and lay media, with the obvious focus of healthcare providers being on patients in internal medicine or intensive care settings.Recently, we treated 3 patients with various surgical emergencies who were also diagnosed with active H1N1 influenza. The purpose of this report is to bring the issue of H1N1 flu in association with surgical emergencies to the forefront of the literature, and suggest that surgical diseases might be significantly accentuated in patients with H1N1 influenza.

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