{"title":"Les appels d’urgence au Samu","authors":"Geneviève Barrier","doi":"10.1016/S0764-4469(01)01334-8","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The French emergency medical system is public and medical. Named Samu, it is almost entirely managed by anesthesiologists specially trained for emergency medical assistance and advanced medical support. The system comprises a reception and dispatching center for emergency calls, directly connected to police and firemen, but assuring patient confidentiality. This fixed center is managing mobile unities which are Medical Intensive Care Ambulances (MICA named Smur in France). The Samu’s mission consists in performing urgent individual medical assistance and also medical services for treatment of mass casualties. It is also to find adequate hospital units for the patients, to perform medical transport and to be a consultant for general practitionners in emergency.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100306,"journal":{"name":"Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series III - Sciences de la Vie","volume":"324 7","pages":"Pages 663-666"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2001-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S0764-4469(01)01334-8","citationCount":"14","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences - Series III - Sciences de la Vie","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0764446901013348","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 14
Abstract
The French emergency medical system is public and medical. Named Samu, it is almost entirely managed by anesthesiologists specially trained for emergency medical assistance and advanced medical support. The system comprises a reception and dispatching center for emergency calls, directly connected to police and firemen, but assuring patient confidentiality. This fixed center is managing mobile unities which are Medical Intensive Care Ambulances (MICA named Smur in France). The Samu’s mission consists in performing urgent individual medical assistance and also medical services for treatment of mass casualties. It is also to find adequate hospital units for the patients, to perform medical transport and to be a consultant for general practitionners in emergency.