Heatwave: 100 emergency visits

On Tuesday, the emergency services for pathologies directly linked to the heat remained comparable to previous days, reassure the health authorities.

The heat episode should continue until August 27 in France. The drop in temperatures should indeed not occur before Sunday, on the occasion of a stormy degradation.

But in the meantime, a large part of the territory (in particular from the north of Midi-Pyrénées to the Paris region, Burgundy, Champagne-Ardenne, north of Rhône-Alpes) will remain subject to maximum temperatures ranging from 35 to 38 ° C. An episode of an “unusual” intensity at this time of year, notes this Thursday Public health France.

The Agency is particularly concerned “in highly populated and urbanized areas, where the effects of urban heat islands could locally worsen the intensity of the heat, including at night”. Faced with this threat, the first victims of the heatwave are to be identified. Without worry, adds the Agency.

Stable emergency passages

In his last point published on Wednesday, Public health France indicates that at the national level, for Tuesday, recourse to care for pathologies directly linked to heat in emergency structures remain “stable” compared to the previous days.

100 emergency visits have been observed nationally (0.3% of overall activity and 1.1% among those over 75), two-thirds of which are located in the departments with yellow or orange vigilance. People aged 15-74 and 75 or over represent respectively 39% and 44% of emergency calls for pathologies directly related to heat.

Few hospitalizations

The proportion of hospitalizations for pathologies directly related to heat among all hospitalizations is 1.4% for all ages (1.8% for children under 15 and adults 75 or over) . Here again, it is stable compared to the previous days, notes Public Health France.

And among the liberal emergency physicians of SOS Médecins, the observation is the same in the four regions affected by orange vigilance (Hauts-de-France, Ile-de-France, Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté) . Except in Essonne, there has been a slight increase in SOS Médecins consultations linked to heat.