The expression “day to day” has never been used so much as since the start of the Covid crisis.
At the Créteil hospital center, we can now count on another formula, marking a form of progress: “Overnight.
Because it is within this time frame that additional resuscitation beds can now be deployed.
In Ile-de-France, a total of 500 modular beds will be deployed by the region, as announced Thursday at the Créteil hospital (CHIC) by its president (Libres!) Valérie Pécresse.
Enough to increase the resuscitation capacity by around 40% across the region.
Avoid re-containment.
This February 18 in France, the number of new confirmed cases, hospitalizations and intensive care admissions for SARS-Cov-2 cases remains "very high", putting the hospital system in a state of "persistent tension".
In Ile-de-France, it is to relieve him that the region has been mounting a project for several months to create 500 modular resuscitation beds.
"We are determined to do what we can to avoid a new confinement", explained Valérie Pécresse Thursday at the Créteil hospital center, recalling that it is decreed "when the hospital capacities are saturated".
For the time being, 150 ephemeral beds have been created in thirteen hospital structures (
see the list at the bottom of the article
).
About twenty more will be fitted with these beds manufactured by the company Philips, selected following a competitive process.
"All the equipment is transportable", clarified about this device of "ephemeral resuscitation" Gilles Vaneson, biomedical engineer.
LP / Fanny Delporte
Revive capacity increased by 40%.
With these 500 modular beds which are added to the 1,200 intensive care beds in Ile-de-France, the resuscitation capacity will increase by 40% in the region.
"The goal is to be agile according to the peaks of the epidemic and to be able to go from intensive care to intensive care overnight", explains the director of operations at Philips Stéphane Becker, in a control room.
Next to him, a bed chosen "in conjunction with the teams" of the hospital center.
"All the equipment is transportable", specifies Gilles Vaneson, biomedical engineer.
Where in a “classic” intensive care unit there is a very specific organization, “from floor to ceiling”, he explains.
At CHIC, an extension of ten beds.
At the Créteil hospital center, 159 people sick with Covid-19 were hospitalized between December 1 and February 15.
Eight people were in intensive care this Thursday, or the entire capacity.
The opening of the ephemeral resuscitation unit makes it possible to create ten additional beds in a wing of the digestive surgery department.
Moreover, making the continuity of the operating activity “possible”.
The advantage of this device, "is that it allows to absorb excess patients", summarizes Gilles Vaneson.
“At CHIC and CHIV (Editor's note: Villeneuve-Saint-Georges hospital center) we had to find other spaces for resuscitation.
We needed additional equipment and they arrived ”, congratulated the general director of Confluence Hospitals Catherine Vauconsant, evoking a“ alignment of stars ”.
"We are determined to do what we can to avoid a new confinement," said Valérie Pécresse Thursday at the Créteil hospital center.
On the left, the head of the ARS in Ile-de-France Aurélien Rousseau.
LP / Fanny Delporte
The essential training.
Unaccustomed to this type of equipment, the teams at the hospital center will be trained in the use of these new beds.
"Here, many nurses have already asked to benefit from this training", indicates the president of the region.
Philips technical teams will provide them.
They are included in the overall cost of the project, 10 million euros, financed by the region and the European Union via a program aimed at dealing with the economic consequences of the pandemic and for which the region began to build a case there. at several months, "proud to leave its usual zone", slips Valérie Pécresse.
"Assume to be in uncertainty".
This partnership with the region aims to "prepare for everything that comes before us," said the head of the regional health agency in Ile-de-France Aurélien Rousseau.
And that we don't really know.
“We have a form of uncertainty and we accept it, but we do not stand by.
Yesterday (Wednesday, Editor's note), 160,000 vaccinations were made in France, ”he adds.
In two weeks, "thirteen hospitals applied," he says.
About twenty more will be able to benefit from these modular beds, including AP-HP hospitals which are also part of "the target of the program", explains the deputy director general of the regional council Cédric Arcos, recalling that the project concerns au same level “the public and the private”.
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150 ephemeral beds have been created in thirteen hospital structures: the Saint-Joseph Hospital (Paris XIVth), the Adolphe de Rothschildv Ophthalmological Foundation (Paris XIXth), the Robert-Ballanger intercommunal hospital in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint -Denis), the Melun hospital center (Seine-et-Marne), the Montreuil hospital center (Seine-Saint-Denis), the Foch medical and surgical center in Suresnes (Hauts-de-Seine), the Créteil (Val-de-Marne), the Versailles hospital (Yvelines), the Intercommunal Hospital Group Le Raincy Montfermeil (Seine-Saint-Denis), the Institut Mutualiste Montsouris (Paris XIVe), the Villeneuve-Saint hospital center -Georges (Val-de-Marne), the hospital center of Provins (Seine-et-Marne), the private hospital of Val d'Yerres (Essonne).