Still a few beds available, which fill inexorably: Sunday, the Ile-de-France already counted 665 patients of the Covid-19 in intensive care. For now, the services are holding the shock. But when will the main part of the wave, expected for the middle of the week, start to hit? “Usually in Île-de-France, an emergency service receives on average two sick people at night in a really serious condition; there are ten of them… ”, blows Pr Stéphane Gaudry, resuscitator at the GHU Paris-Seine-Saint-Denis (Bobigny).
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Long, heavy resuscitations. All of them had to increase their workload in order to increase the number of patients in bed. And we will have to keep up this exhausting pace: "We left for at least two or three months," said Professor Timsit, head of the medical resuscitation service at Bichat hospital. "We have already been told that when the situation explodes, we will have to be on deck 24 hours a day, 7 days a week," notes Dr. Marc-Antoine Gianni, at Ambroise-Paré hospital. And this rhythm
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