FluSurge 2.0
One-stop access to U.S. Government avian and pandemic flu information. Managed by the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Provided by the World Health Organization
FluSurge is a spreadsheet-based model which provides hospital administrators and public health officials estimates of the surge in demand for hospital-based services during the next influenza pandemic. FluSurge estimates the number of hospitalizations and deaths of an influenza pandemic (whose length and virulence are determined by the user) and compares the number of persons hospitalized, the number of persons requiring ICU care, and the number of persons requiring ventilator support during a pandemic with existing hospital capacity.
FluSurge 2.0 is a new version of FluSurge 1.0, which was originally released in July, 2004. With FluSurge 2.0, users can now change variables that impact estimates of the number and duration of influenza-related hospitalizations. Variables that can be altered by the user include the assumed average length of hospital stay for an influenza-related illness, and the percentage of influenza-related hospital admits that will require a bed in an Intensive Care Unit (ICU). The user can also change the total number of persons requiring hospitalization.
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System Requirements:
- Windows* operating system (MS Windows 2000 or newer)
- Microsoft Excel (MS Office 2000 or newer)
- 486 Pentium processor and at least 128MB RAM
- 2 MB of hard drive storage space
* MS Windows and Office is a copyrighted product produced by Microsoft Corporation, WA. Use of trade names and commercial sources is for identification only and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Instructions for Downloading:
Before loading and starting FluSurge, you must change Excel's security level.
You must first do the following steps:
- Open a blank Excel spreadsheet.
- Click Tools and then click Macro, choose Security
- Set Security Level to Medium.
- Click OK.
- Double click and open FluSurge file.
- When asked to Disable Macros or Enable Macros, click Enable Macros.
Downloading the Files:
*We recommend downloading and saving the FluSurge Spreadsheet to your computer, then open the spreadsheet from your computer. This will allow the spreadsheet to open in Excell instead of your web browser.
- * FluSurge Spreadsheet
- FluSurge
Manual
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Page last updated December 28, 2006