• A patient regulation system comes into force from Wednesday evening in the adult emergency room of the Bordeaux University Hospital.

  • It will now be necessary to contact the Samu-Centre 15 before going to the emergency room in the evening.

  • The objective is to deal with the lack of personnel in a situation of great tension.

After the “outpost” in front of the emergency room, place for the “regulation” of patients.

Faced with the “tension” in adult emergencies, the ARS (Regional Health Agency) Nouvelle-Aquitaine announced on Tuesday in a press release that the emergency department of the CHU Pellegrin in Bordeaux will have to “adapt”.

A “regulation” will thus be put in place “for a determined period”, from Wednesday evening.

Between 5 p.m. and 8 a.m., it will no longer be possible to go to the adult emergency room in Pellegrin without first contacting the 15th. “Between 5 p.m. to refer people who have not been regulated via the 15, details Gilbert Mouden, nurse anesthetist and Sud Santé union representative.

From 10 p.m. the door will be closed with an intercom to communicate.

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“Patient sorting” according to Sud Santé

It will be precisely “a telephone connected to the Samu, accessible in front of the emergency access”, specifies the ARS.

“It guarantees all patients who present themselves with an appropriate response: medical advice, a drug or biological prescription, a deferred appointment, redirection to an emergency service in a local establishment.

In the event of a proven emergency, the patient is taken care of directly by the emergency department.

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For the Sud-CHU Bordeaux union, it is neither more nor less than a “sorting of patients at the entrance to the adult emergencies of Pellegrin.

"" There is a lack of emergency doctors, nurses, caregivers, lists Gilbert Mouden, so that today, the Bordeaux University Hospital is no longer able to accommodate the population in distress.

“If the nurse-anaesthetist admits that there is” patient education to be done concerning access to emergencies, this should be done upstream, not in the middle of a crisis”.

"Strong tensions linked to the fatigue of the teams in place"

The ARS recognizes for its part that "in recent weeks, as everywhere in France, several neo-Aquitaine health establishments have experienced strong tensions linked to the fatigue of the teams in place after two years of pandemic, and the difficulty of recruiting doctors or paramedics.

It is in this context that it is today "necessary to adapt the organization within an emergency service" to continue "to ensure its operation H24".

The South union points out, however, that "unfortunately our call regulation system (SAMU) is also in great pain due to a lack of human resources and more particularly of ARM (Medical Regulation Assistants) who are today reinforced by more than forty students in medicine ".

A social movement to denounce the working conditions in the emergency room should be organized next week in front of the CHU.

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