University hospital emergency medicine
University hospital emergency medicine
The emergency department is open 24/7, without distinction, to any patient who arrives spontaneously at the emergency department or after referral by SAMU · Centre 15. The medical and paramedical team provides reception, observation, care and monitoring of the patient until their referral.
The emergency department is open 24/7, without distinction, to any patient who arrives spontaneously at the emergency department or after referral by SAMU · Centre 15. The medical and paramedical team provides reception, observation, care and monitoring of the patient until their referral.
Team
Service composition
- 1 PUPH
- 1 Senior Health Executive
- 1 administrative contact person
- 1 PH in charge of the Emergency-Short-Stay Unit
- 1 PH in charge of the SAMU
- 48 senior emergency physicians (31 FTE)
- 3 Clinical Assistants from Hospitals
- 6 Junior Doctors
- 4 health executives
- 3 medical secretaries
Emergency Reception Service
Activities
Upon arrival, in order to complete your file, please present your identity card, your health insurance card and your supplementary health insurance card, and the E111 forms for foreigners.
ONLY LIFE-THREATENING OR FUNCTIONAL EMERGENCIES GET PRIORITY.
Arrival order is only taken into account for emergencies of similar severity. Your waiting time therefore depends on:
- Depending on the level of urgency of your condition,
- Of the number of patients,
- Regarding the arrival or not of other patients in more serious condition,
- Regarding the availability of the appropriate emergency sector.
- Emergency physician,
- Specialist physician,
- Medical student (extern or intern),
- Reception and orientation nurse,
- State-certified nurse,
- Caregiver.
- Stretcher bearer
Companions are not allowed in the care area, except with special authorization from the doctor or nurse. Civic service volunteers, identifiable by their blue vests, are present to facilitate communication between patients, caregivers, and companions.
With your consent, your loved ones will be informed of your health status and the expected waiting time. They can wait in the waiting room or leave and call for updates.
1 · Reception area
Initialcollection of your medical data by the triage nurse
• Assessment of the degree of urgency
• Provision of firstaid •
Pain assessment and relief
• Application of an identification bracelet to the wrist
2 · Orientation
To the most suitable area
• Pedestrian area
• Area for stretcher patients
• Emergency care area
3. At the end of the treatment
The doctor will inform you of your next steps:
• Return home (after handing over medical and administrative documents)
• Hospitalization
• Transfer to another facility
The waiting time in the emergency room can depend on:
- The duration of the clinical examination,
- Regarding the time required to obtain further examinations,
- The need for an opinion from another specialist,
- Waiting for a hospital bed.
These delays are unfortunately unavoidable.
Healthcare professionals at Caen Normandy University Hospital are doing everything they can to reduce them.
SAMU · SMUR Centre 15
- to ensure continuous medical monitoring,
- to determine and trigger, as quickly as possible, the optimal response to the nature of the call,
- to organize the patient's transport to the unit best suited to their condition,
- participate in research activities in the field of pre-hospital medicine.
The service's activity is divided as follows:
- Call Regulation (CRRA),
- Pre-hospital medical activity (SMUR),
- Secondary patient transport to the university hospital's referral care units (Cardiology, Neurosurgery, Surgery and Cardiovascular, Medical and Surgical Intensive Care),
- Medical coverage for exceptional events (e.g., the 60thanniversary of D-Day),
- Emergency Care Training Center (CESU).
Collaborations
Côte de Nacre Hospital
University hospital emergency medicine
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University hospital emergency medicine Côte de Nacre Hospital | Level : 1 | GPS access: Emergency services |  |
