Intensive Care Medicine · Resuscitation

The service takes care of seriously ill medical patients with one or more organ failures requiring specific, often invasive, treatment, which is life-threatening.

However, it is common for surgical patients to also be treated in the department due to a surgical diagnosis made subsequently or because there is no available space in the surgical intensive care units of the anesthesiology and intensive care department or in nearby hospitals. These acute conditions include: respiratory distress, circulatory failure, renal failure, drug poisoning, severe infections, neurological failure and coma, as well as severely immunocompromised patients (leukemia, aplasia, allogeneic transplantation, chemotherapy)...

• teamwork: involving doctors, paramedics, physiotherapists, psychologists…
• a medical diagnostic approach : requiring active collaboration with other organ-specific specialties and the university hospital laboratories, as well as imaging specific to resuscitation (ultrasound, CT scan, MRI, isotopy)
• and a therapeutic approach that may require the implementation of artificial techniques to support failing vital organs:
  Thus, in addition to conventional medical care, the department provides invasive and non-invasive ventilation, cardiac monitoring, cardiac catheterizations, continuous or intermittent renal replacement therapy (dialysis), external respiratory support (ECMO and ECCO2R), and external circulatory support (ECLS). Furthermore, two dedicated rooms with sterile isolation allow for the care of immunocompromised patients (chemotherapy, leukemia, bone marrow transplantation, solid tumors, AIDS, etc.) requiring intensive care.