Just an address and an emergency, a man lost consciousness somewhere in a building. Among the firefighters, there is Amandine Chardon, a professional nurse. It’s the same uniform, but not the same look, nor the same gestures: paramedical procedures and medications before reaching the hospital. There’s already another call. A highway worker injured his throat. Now everything is written on a tablet. The data is immediately transmitted to the operational center to a firefighter, also a nurse. The SAMU is never far away. In Haute-Savoie, as in 19 departments, firefighters and “men in white” work side by side. “We exchange information. […] This really streamlines the intervention, in the interest of the victim,” says Sergeant Guillaume Mermin, from the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service of Haute-Savoie (SDIS 74). chances of survival, even where doctors are rare. There are 7,000 nurses out of 250,000 firefighters. But soon, all should be trained in certain paramedical acts, in addition to first aid actions. TF1 | Report F. de Juvigny, G. Vuitton
2023-10-04 21:31:18
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