They are back home, in New Aquitaine. A team of 19 anesthetists, palliative care doctors, emergency physicians, nurses and psychologists spent a few days in the Grand Est to relieve the medical teams who are facing the great tension caused in this region by the Covid-19 pandemic. This is particularly the case for Isabelle Appert, operating room nurse. She worked for four days in Metz in a resuscitation service that has become "versatile", excluding Covid-19. She returns with the feeling of duty accomplished.
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"It's a little more stressful because there is risk taking"
"We come back with the great satisfaction of having accomplished something important. But also tired, because we were in services which were not necessarily adapted to our competence", she testifies to Europe 1 .
"Our presence allowed the staff members to go to rest. When we left our families, we were a bit of heroes, going to the east to relieve the teams. Once we got there, we realize that the staff, in all simplicity, do their job. Of course, it's a little more stressful because there is a risk-taking, but they don't flaunt it, "said the nurse.
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"We come back armed"
Above all, the experience acquired during these few days could very quickly be put to use in New Aquitaine, which remains for the moment one of the regions most spared from the virus. "There is a transmission, which occurs spontaneously. […] We come back armed to possibly take care of patients here in the southwest," concludes Isabelle Appert.