The practical experience of managing the H1N1 2009 influenza pandemic in Australian and New Zealand intensive care units

Crit Care Resusc ISSN: 1441-2772 1 June 2010 12 2 121-130 © C r i t C a re Re sus c 20 10 www.jficm.anzca.edu.au/aaccm/journal/publications.htm Reviews hemisphere, including Australia and New Zeala The provision of intensive care in these countries other developed countries. The experience in help intensive care clinici ns elsewhere to tr illness associated with H1N1 2009. At the onset of the H1N1 2009 influenza p The influenza A virus undergoes periodic antigen shifts, resulting in new strains. The emergence of new strains provides the necessary conditions for a pandemic,1 and this occurred in 2009. It was the first pandemic since 1968, and the first to occur in an era of widespread intensive care.2 The H1N1 2009 virus emerged in the northern hemisphere, and winter outbreaks followed in countries in the southern nd (ANZ).3 is similar to ANZ may eat critical