Indiana
Kids testing positive for RSV at one Indiana hospital more than triple this year compared to last
by: Dr. Mary Gillis, D.Ed.
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INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Indiana hospitals are battling a surge in RSV infections with docs calling the numbers staggering.
The Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention present the bounce in Indiana occurred in simply the previous 5 weeks.
Information 8 spoke with Dr. John Christenson, affiliate medical director of an infection prevention at Riley Kids’s Well being, who described the scenario at Riley Hospital for Kids.
“Within the hospital we, for the final three or 4 weeks, have been experiencing a surge in respiratory viral exercise,” he stated. “We’ve had RSV present up early once more this 12 months identical to final 12 months so we’re seeing a variety of infants. A lot of them are requiring a hospital keep due to oxygen wants.”
Christenson says Riley Hospital for Kids is busy with roughly 40% of sufferers coming to the emergency room due to RSV. The hospital additionally shared the variety of instances of RSV they’ve seen this 12 months in comparison with final.
In September 2021 there have been 51 confirmed RSV infections. This 12 months there have been 97. The quantity for October has greater than tripled this 12 months in comparison with final with 33 in 2021 and 113 sufferers testing optimistic to date this month.
These numbers replicate the variety of kids who got here to Riley due to an sickness. They have been viral examined and the take a look at got here again optimistic RSV.