Journal of Emergency Health Care

fa Clinical And Preclinical Finding In Influenza عمومى General مروری Review Background: Influenza is an acute respiratory viral infection that threatens global health. Regular assessment of clinical and paraclinical symptoms is a very important tool for early diagnosis and disease management, transmission, and prevention of influenza, epidemics. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate the clinical and paraclinical symptoms of patients with influenza in the north of Iran. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on hospitalized patients through a convenience sampling method from September 2019 to February 2020 in a teaching hospital, in Iran. The inclusion criteria were age at least one year and the possibility of influenza based on at least one of the following clinical and paraclinical findings. Clinical manifestation, radiographic findings, and paraclinical findings had been assessed. Patients with hospitalization of fewer than three days and incomplete documents were excluded. Results: Most of the patients were male (52.0%) and had a history of contact with positive influenza patients (88.3%). The most common symptoms were fever (89.9%), chills (76.9%), cough (67.5%), and sore throat (41.2%), respectively. It was no significant difference between WBC, LDH, and CPK in less than 12 years old vs. above 12 years old (p>0.05). But, the platelet was a significant difference between less than 12 years old vs. above 12 years old. Conclusions: The results of the present study provide a rationale for annual vaccination and other preventive measures against influenza. Also, this study was the last study in relation to influenza before the COVID-19 pandemic and the extracted data can be useful to compare influenza and COVID-19.   Influenza Disease, Acute Respiratory Infection, Symptom of Disease 38 43 http://intjmi.com/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-493&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Farhang Babamahmoodi 10031947532846005394 10031947532846005394 No Professor of Infectious Diseases Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran Masoud Maboudi 10031947532846005395 10031947532846005395 Yes Assistant Professor, Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran Ghazale Hosainzade 10031947532846005396 10031947532846005396 No Medical intern, medical school, AZAD University of Medical Science, Sari, Iran Ata Ebrahimi 10031947532846005397 10031947532846005397 No Medical intern, medical school, AZAD University of Medical Science, Sari, Iran Faeze Asghari 10031947532846005398 10031947532846005398 No Medical intern, Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center and Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran Fateme Ahangarkani 10031947532846005399 10031947532846005399 No Assistant Professor of clinical sciences, Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran Mahsa Kamali 10031947532846005400 10031947532846005400 No MSC student in Biostatistics, Faculty of Health Mazandaran university of Medical Sciences, sari, Iran Azadeh Khalatbari 10031947532846005401 10031947532846005401 No Doctor of Medicine, Antimicrobial Resistance Research Centre and Communicable Diseases Institute, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran