In Evreux, siesta boosted emergencies

The hospital's emergencies have launched an experiment: duty doctors and night-care workers must take a nap during their service.

When we meet Arnaud Depil-Duval, 43, emergency chief of the hospital Eure-Seine in Evreux, he has just completed twenty-seven consecutive hours of work. Fresh as a roach, his eyes willingly laughing behind thin rectangular glasses, he shouts: "You see, it works well, the nap during the service! "

This reservist army doctor launched, eighteen months ago, the nap mandatory for doctors providing 24-hour guards in emergencies. The device was expanded to night nurses six months ago. He is inspired by a guide from the Biomedical Research Institute of the Armed Forces to particular units of the special forces. The doctor, fan of Napoleon, worked to produce a civil version.

This "security procedure": a nap of 90 minutes minimum in a real room; a second nap of thirty minutes; a micro-rest of ten to fifteen minutes in an XXL cushion ...