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Role of epidemiologic information system in sudden death prevention among Croatia's hemodialysis patients

The mai aim o Croatia's epidemiological information system is to enable the monitoring of infectious diseases as well as to enable necessary interventions. Its 24-hour epidemiologic alert mechanism made it possible for initial reports of sudden leath clusters in haemodialysis units to reach epidemiologists on the night of 12 October 2001. The alert about the sudden deaths among haemodialysis patients in two hospitalshas prompted us to do an epidemiological inquiry during that night and early the next morning. It looked at suspicions of a possible link between BAxter Plivadial P15 lo 2001F075 dialyser and these deaths. As the suspicion was based on a small amount of data, it needed confirmation from a countrywide inquiry involving the other 40 haemodialysis units.

dialyser; hemodialysis patient; sudden death

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