The epidemiology of Hajj-related critical illness: Lessons for deployment of temporary critical care services*

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 829-834

  Mandourah, Yasser ^a   Ocheltree, Ali ^b   Al Radi, Assim ^b   Fowler, Robert ^c  

^a The General Directorate of Armed Forces Health Services   (Saudi Arabia)

^b Saudi Critical Care Society Trial Group   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation IV; comorbidities; epidemiology; H1N1; Hajj; intensive care unit

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APACHE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASTHMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HAJJ; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INTENSIVE CARE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORTALITY; MOSLEM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAUDI ARABIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; ISLAM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SAUDI ARABIA; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857518846     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318236f49b     Document Type: Article

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