Annales françaises d'anesthèsie et de rèanimation
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Ann Fr Anesth Reanim · Dec 2011
Case Reports[Exceptional medical circumstances: interest of an interhospital support strategy within the North Alps emergency trauma network].
The Northern French Alps Emergency Network (RENAU) has a main objective the improvement of the quality of the care in the field of the emergency medical treatment. With this French medical system, we developed a procedure allowing the detachment of a medical-surgical team of the university hospital to help general hospital team in the event of immediate vital emergency situation with untransportable patient. We reported the successful implementation of this support strategy for a 51-year-old patient arrived in a hospital of the network in extremely serious hemodynamic shock due to an important hemorrhagic pericardial effusion with tamponnade 1 day after percutaneous closure of the patent foramen ovale (PFO).
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To assess family satisfaction in the intensive care unit (ICU) and to identify parameters for improvement. ⋯ Quality of family reception in the ICU needs to be improved concerning waiting time, visiting hours, social and emotional support.