“
Emergency
physicians are noisy people…”
smiles Dr. Mathias Wargon, head of emergencies and Smur at Delafontaine hospital in Saint-Denis.
Alarms, agitated patients, exchanges between caregivers in front of the treatment boxes;
telephones which ring and operators which sometimes raise the tone on the side of the centers of regulation… Noise is omnipresent in emergency medicine.
And it bothers patients and caregivers.
However, it is clear that noise pollution may well be recognized as a source of psychological and physical stress, where human health is managed, they are hardly taken into account ...
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In the scientific literature, studies are not very numerous.
On the other hand, they are unanimous on one point: without frankly hampering the healing of patients, the noise disturbs their rest, and therefore their recovery.
And things do not get better: in 2005, researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore indicated that since 1960
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