Cardiac arrest: deep chest compressions effective despite the risk of injury
Faced with a victim of cardiac arrest, resuscitation recommendations plead for deep chest compressions. The risk of fracture of the ...
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Were the elderly kept out of hospitals at the peak of the Covid-19 epidemic? What we know
The access of the elderly to intensive care services during the epidemic peak of coronavirus is controversial. Shedding light on ...
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Covid-19: a drug would reduce the risk of developing a severe form by 79%
A British laboratory has developed a drug capable of reducing the risk of developing a severe form of the disease ...
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Coronavirus: the State will requisition essential drugs in intensive care
The State recently announced to pharmacists that it was preparing to requisition the stocks of 5 resuscitation drugs available in ...
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The epidemic seen by resuscitators: “We remain on our guard!”
They are at the heart of the coronavirus crisis in hospitals. After a peak in the epidemic which made them ...
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Podcast: “We need to be more agile in times of crisis”
In the summary of our daily audio meeting hosted by Dr Jean-François Lemoine: Elisabeth Hubert, former Minister of Health and ...
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Podcast: “I call on the directors of Ehpad to ask for reinforcements, caregivers and non-caregivers!”
In the summary of our daily audio meeting hosted by Dr Jean-François Lemoine: Dr Michelle Levy-Soussan, head of the palliative ...
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Podcast: “In intensive care, we are at the maximum of what we can do”
In the summary of our audio meeting hosted by Dr Jean-François Lemoine: Dr Charles Cerf, head of intensive care at ...
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Podcast: “It must be said very clearly that everyone must wear a mask!”
Contents of our audio meeting hosted by Dr Jean-François Lemoine: Philippe Dumas, ex-director of research at the CNRS, speaks of ...
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Nurse in intensive care, she testifies: “We have no respite”
A nurse from the intensive care unit of a Seine-et-Marnais hospital tells us about the daily life of the nursing ...
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Podcast: “We lack intensive care nurses!”
In the summary of our daily meeting led by Dr Jean-François Lemoine: Pr Jean-Michel Constantin, head of the anesthesia-resuscitation department ...
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Podcast: “We must now take care of the care pathway for patients in intensive care”
Guest of Dr Jean-François Lemoine, Pr Jean-Michel Constantin, head of the anesthesia-resuscitation department at the Pité-Salpêtrière, recounts the operation of ...
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Coronavirus: a non-invasive ventilation system reduces the need for artificial respiration
A simple system developed over several years makes it possible to use non-invasive ventilation for many patients infected with the ...
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Podcast: “In intensive care, we have not yet been subjected to difficult choices”
Today in our podcast, the new daily appointment of Why Doctor: Dr Elie Azoulay, intensive care doctor, looks back on ...
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Podcast: “We are doing everything we can to mitigate a shock in Ile de France”
Today in the new daily meeting of Why Doctor, our podcast on Health news: the point on the persistence and ...
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Coronavirus: is the disease more severe in Italy and Europe than in China?
Italy is facing an uncontrolled epidemic of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pneumonia. As the virus spreads in France, the problem arises of ...
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Intensive care: algorithms to prevent respiratory failure
Thanks to artificial intelligence, Swiss researchers have succeeded in developing a method capable of predicting in advance respiratory failure in ...
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Spain: a woman resuscitated 6 hours after suffering a cardiac arrest
In Spain, doctors have announced that they saved the life of a Briton six hours after suffering cardiac arrest. It ...
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Sudden deaths of athletes: fewer deaths thanks to cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Over the past ten years, the number of sudden sports-related deaths has decreased thanks to the increase in cardiopulmonary resuscitation ...
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Heart attack: should patients be kept in intensive care?
Even after a heart attack, the question of maintaining victims in intensive care now arises. Heart attack victims don't have ...
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Intensive care: better predict whether patients on ventilators can breathe on their own
By analyzing the sleep of mechanically ventilated patients, researchers have developed a new strategy that could help doctors know when ...
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Influenza epidemic: already 1,800 dead since the start of winter
The flu epidemic has already killed around 1,800 people since surveillance began last November, according to Santé Publique France. the ...
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Half of patients in intensive care suffer from depression or anxiety
Being treated in an intensive care unit for a pathology or serious failure is not without consequences for psychological health. ...
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Resuscitation following cardiac arrest: questioning adrenaline
Following cardiac arrest, adrenaline (epinephrine) improves patient survival, but can also cause significant neurological disorders, according to a new study. ...
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Cardiac arrest: as in Paris, the SAMU de Lyon now practices cardiopulmonary bypass
An incredible resuscitation technique, which can be carried out in the field even before arriving at the hospital, has now ...
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Béziers: the heart of a 53-year-old man did not stop for 18 hours … but it remains a feat of resuscitation.
In Béziers, a 53-year-old man, found in bradycardia, that is to say a heart which was beating very slowly, and ...
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Continuation of care: Marwa’s father relieved
In Marseille, justice has just ordered the Timone hospital to continue the care of a one-year-old baby in a coma ...
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Marseille: justice orders the continuation of care on a baby
In Marseille, the administrative court called for the continuation of care for a baby plunged into a coma, thus granting ...
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Intensive care: noise pollution twice too high
In a Belgian study, researchers make a worrying finding. Sound levels in intensive care units are too high. Silence is ...
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Intensive care: families exposed to post-traumatic stress
Decision-making for a loved one in intensive care or intensive care leaves traces. 42% of families show signs of post-traumatic ...
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