“People over 70 are no longer intubated since they do not get away with it anyway.” Nurse at the Emile-Muller center in Mulhouse, Solène (1) writes this SMS on Monday. She then just worked for several days in emergencies overwhelmed by the coronavirus epidemic. Exhausted by the services without breaks, sometimes without meals, she helplessly observes a new dimension of her profession in the midst of a health crisis: the nursing staff must now choose among the patients to be resuscitated. The elderly and victims of multiple pathologies risk taking up places for lighter cases… “That’s the hardest thing morally, is to only care for people you can save … “ said a Mulhouse nurse.
In the south of Alsace, the pandemic has hit hospital structures that have been short of emergency doctors for months. Resuscitation skills “Are saturated in the Haut-Rhin”, said the prefect of the Grand-Est region, Josiane Chevalier at the beginning of s
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