High-intensity war arose in the life of chief doctor Benoît Plaud on November 13, 2015. The Saint-Louis hospital in Paris, where he operated as coordinator of the intensive care unit, is only a few steps away terraces targeted by the terrorists that evening. Twenty-three people, including eight in absolute emergency, are being treated.
“We saw
war wounded arriving
while the hospital was not at all in this way of thinking,
” he says, dressed in military fatigues in the corridors of the Val-de school. -Grace, where he now offers training to his colleagues.
The doctor is a committed reservist, ready to disseminate his skills.
“My role is to train personnel in forward-looking medicine, which is not always known to civilian medicine. It is a fairly rustic medicine, the objective of which is to avoid avoidable deaths
,” he continues. It involves managing resources in the event of an influx of injured people, knowing how to prioritize care, applying…
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