Saturated hospitals but a situation generally under control in the Great East is the portrait that draws Professor François Braun, head of the emergency department of the CHR of Metz. "Overall in the Great East, the situation is worrying, I took stock with my colleagues from Alsace, they are saturated with sick patients, and now the Moselle, and therefore Metz are in the same situation with an influx of patients patients who keep arriving and that we have to examine and test each time to see if they are positive for the coronavirus ", explains the doctor.
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The phenomenon of saturation is not yet reached everywhere according to him "We can already speak of saturation, as regards the region of Mulhouse Colmar. At the level of Strasbourg there is an adaptation which is still possible. At the level of the Moselle , we are in a phase where we are increasing the number of beds dedicated to sick patients in this Covid by almost half a day to half a day. "
Hospital needs to focus on patients who need to be hospitalized
Most of the patients who come are admitted because there is a filter upstream thanks to the Samu. "The call to the Samu makes it possible to differentiate the patients who obviously are sick and those who are sick and must be hospitalized. The hospital must focus on the patients who must be hospitalized, who are sicker and who have a risk of deterioration of their significant state. "
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This makes it possible to avoid shortages of equipment necessary for the care of patients. "For the moment there are no reports of glaring shortages of respirators, there was still quite a bit of stock and then there is an adaptation that is done, there is a deprogramming of their surgical activity, so we also find respirator capacities in operating theaters which are now used for resuscitation, but we follow this very carefully. "