Influenza: A Clinical Update Following a Century of Influenza Science

Although influenza science has come a long way since the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, influenza continues to be a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. This review provides current, evidence-based recommendations regarding influenza prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Nurse practitioners can hel...

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Published in:Journal for nurse practitioners 2019-06, Vol.15 (6), p.429-433
Main Author: Hart, Ann Marie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
cap-dependent endonuclease inhibitors
Disease control
FDA approval
Immunization
Influenza
influenza nucleic acid amplification tests
influenza vaccinations
Medical diagnosis
Morbidity
Mortality
neuraminidase inhibitors
Nurse practitioners
Prevention
Vaccines
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Summary:Although influenza science has come a long way since the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, influenza continues to be a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. This review provides current, evidence-based recommendations regarding influenza prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. Nurse practitioners can help reduce influenza-associated morbidity and mortality by receiving annual influenza vaccinations, encouraging patients and community members to receive annual influenza vaccinations, developing and implementing strategies to improve influenza vaccination rates, encouraging preventive personal and community nonpharmaceutical interventions during influenza outbreaks, and by routinely reviewing and implementing current influenza recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. •Together influenza and pneumonia are the eighth leading cause of death in the United States.•Influenza vaccination remains a mainstay of prevention but is underused.•Rapid influenza nucleic acid amplification tests can help with influenza diagnosis.•Influenza antivirals are critical to influenza prevention and management.•Patients and parents should be informed of influenza complications to report.
ISSN:1555-4155
1878-058X
DOI:10.1016/j.nurpra.2018.12.026