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Swine flu: provision of ventilation in a worst-case scenario

Alex Doyle*, Joseph Carter and Peter Young

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Department of Anaesthesia, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gayton Road, Kings Lynn PE30 4ET, UK

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Critical Care 2009, 13:422 doi:10.1186/cc8122

Published: 28 October 2009

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As a busy intensive care unit in a district general hospital in the UK, we are intrigued by the worst-case scenario plans for swine flu in our region and the ubiquitous algorithms that form part of this planning.