Chile: Swine Flu

Puerto Montt is a man of any serious infection of human influenza

Anselmo Urrutia of 37 years was transferred to the capital and is in the ICU Chest Hospital.

by J. Maldonado and Agencies - 20/06/2009 - 15:05

In the ICU Chest Hospital, where he arrived this morning from Puerto Montt, is Anselmo Urrutia, for 37 years.

As reported in the Intermediate Care Unit's establishment, the patient is suffering from acute pneumonia and is supported by mechanical ventilation, requiring high levels of oxygen. In terms of hemodynamic and renal function is stable. The patient is sedated and is receiving antiviral treatment, but is still pending the outcome of the PCR, it has not confirmed who is affected by AH1N1.

In Puerto Montt there are five patients connected to mechanical ventilation, including two in critical condition. In turn Castro into another woman, who arrived in Osorno remains hospitalized.

Also, from Santiago have been sent four mechanical ventilators to the area these days shows that the peak of the disease, appropriated radio Cooperativa.

VICTIM
A 18-year-old became the fifth victim of the fatal human influenza in the country. The patient died this morning at the Hospital de Puerto Montt, where he was interned.

The deceased identified cone Maldonado Nelson Maldonado weighed 190 pounds and joined the June 6 to the hospital with pneumonia, septic shock and respiratory failure catastrophic, forcing his hospitalization in the Critical Patient Unit.

"It was a couple of a highly vulnerable group who lived on the streets," according to the director of the Health Service Reloncaví, Eugenia Schnake.

The patient also had pick-Wick syndrome that causes respiratory failure.

The Ministry of Health yesterday reported 161 cases of severe human influenza, with 4315 people infected since May 17 last.

The death of this teenager from Puerto Montt, Los Lagos region area where there have been five deaths is the sum of Ismael Pavez, Juan Humberto Pozas, Fernando Vera and Oscar Jimenez.
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