Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
Volume 26, Issue 4 , Pages 207-214 , August 2010

Early experience with influenza A H1N109 in an Australian intensive care unit

  • Tim Leen

      Affiliations

    • ICU, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, 6000, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 8 9224 2601; fax: +61 8 9224 3668.
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  • Teresa A. Williams

      Affiliations

    • Critical Care Division, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia
    • School of Nursing & Midwifery, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley, Western Australia 6102, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: School of Nursing & Midwifery, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley, Western Australia 6102, Australia. Tel.: +61 439 907 6161; fax: +61 8 9224 3668.
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  • Lorraine Campbell

      Affiliations

    • ICU, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, 6000, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 8 9224 2601; fax: +61 8 9224 3668.
    • ,
  • Jenny Chamberlain

      Affiliations

    • ICU, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, 6000, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 8 9224 2601; fax: +61 8 9224 3668.
    • ,
  • Andree Gould

      Affiliations

    • ICU, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, 6000, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 8 9224 2601; fax: +61 8 9224 3668.
    • ,
  • Geraldine McEntaggart

      Affiliations

    • ICU, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia, 6000, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 8 9224 2601; fax: +61 8 9224 3668.
    • ,
  • Gavin D. Leslie

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing & Midwifery, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Kent Street, Bentley, Western Australia 6102, Australia
    • Centre for Education,Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia
    • Tel.: +61 404103344; fax: +61 8 9224 2255.

,Accepted 19 May 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.iccn.2010.05.005

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
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