Visit of the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital
Visit of the interministerial delegate for victim assistance to the premises of Pitié-Salpêtrière: a hospital at the forefront of crisis preparation and management.
On Wednesday April 21, Frédérique CALANDRA, interministerial delegate for victim assistance, visited, at the invitation of Professor Mathieu RAUX and the director of the hospital, Marie-Anne RUDER, the emergency reception service as well as as the post-intervention surveillance and reception room for polytrauma patients at Pitié-Salpêtrière.
This visit made it possible in particular to discover the journey of the victims treated in the context of an exceptional health event and a massive influx of victims (ORSAN-AMAVI plan): their reception, the identification process, the treatment immediate and post-immediate and their follow-up within this health establishment, both in terms of somatic and psychological health, whether they are injured or involved.
Thanks in particular to the lessons learned from the reception and care given to the victims of the attacks of November 13, 2015, the entire hospital community has been able to re-examine its practices, improve the care and organization of spaces and care at the hospital. benefit of victims and their relatives.
The continuous training and practical exercises approach involving all the teams, adaptation and innovation deployed in a logic of preparation of the nursing, technical and administrative teams for crises that may affect the hospital (power failure, influx of victims contaminated or uncontaminated, etc.) is also the one that has allowed the hospital and its teams for more than a year to face the COVID19 pandemic with unwavering commitment.
Discussions with the teams present were also an opportunity to recall the work carried out by the interministerial delegate and her team in the service of the victim assistance policy, in collaboration with the Ministry of Solidarity and Health and the all health professionals.
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