Medical equipment, tests and treatments: lessons from the pandemic or lessons from the shortage?

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By: Caroline Paré Follow

United States, Spain, Italy, France… The countries most affected by the pandemic face a shortage of protective masks. Medical personnel are sometimes forced to reuse the same masks, with direct health risks. Many medical facilities are also lacking and including in the Reference Hospitals, the time is at an extreme economy, to avoid the shortage of inputs (tubing, consumables, anesthetics or antibiotics ...).

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What lessons can be learned from this situation? How to better anticipate to avoid new deficiencies?

• Carine Milcent , researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) , associate professor at the Paris School of Economics , vice-president of the scientific council of the Agence Technique de l'Information Médicale (ATIH) and member of the Council Public Health Scientist France (SPF)
• Dr Thomas Borel , Scientific Director of LEEM (pharmaceutical companies, pharmaceutical union)
• Pr Rémi Salomon , head of the pediatric nephrology department at the Necker hospital for sick children in Paris . President of the establishment medical committee (the body representing the medical staff) 
• Dr Sophie Crozier , neurologist in the cerebrovascular emergency service at the Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris 

• Laurence Le Coq , professor, teacher and researcher, director of research and innovation at IMT Atlantique in Nantes

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