SAMU and residential care homes (EHPAD) COVID cell crisis

The Covid-19 health crisis forced the French emergency call centers (SAMU), to quickly adapt and reorganize on a daily basis. Call centers had to come up with specific responses to all types of calls and was to be the gatekeeper of the surge in referrals of elderly patients to in-hospital emergency...

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Autores principales: Bertrand, Catherine, Laurent, Marie, Lecarpentier, Eric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Masson SAS on behalf of Société Française de Médecine de Catastrophe. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7538115/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pxur.2020.07.004
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Sumario:The Covid-19 health crisis forced the French emergency call centers (SAMU), to quickly adapt and reorganize on a daily basis. Call centers had to come up with specific responses to all types of calls and was to be the gatekeeper of the surge in referrals of elderly patients to in-hospital emergency departments. SAMU 94 and the Health faculty of the University of Créteil, France, jointly set up an online unit dedicated to nursing homes. Feedback shows that this geriatric unit is a valuable concept and that we should not wait for a second-wave crisis to consolidate its foundations.

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