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Faced with overwhelmed emergency services, some establishments are imagining solutions so as not to leave patients in distress. In the Channel, an intern travels to the patients and organizes teleconsultations with a doctor from the hospital, if necessary.
First aid bag on his back, Antoine Maurey, volunteer for the Sauvlife association, intervenes for discomfort. When Janine Gogo called on the 15th, the mobile teleconsultation unit was sent. The student in 5th year of medicine makes a medical interrogation and collects the constants. Everything is then sent to the doctor, who connects from Cherbourg (Manche), 50 km away.
To complete the examination, the doctor listens remotely using a connected stethoscope. When the Samu proposed the solution to Janine, she did not hesitate. “I said to myself: ‘We will be reassured, we will know'”, she says. The doctor can then send some patients to the hospital. “There are plenty of situations where we can avoid patients going to the emergency room directly, and make the diagnosis at home”, explains the doctor. La Manche is a pioneer department for telemedicine units. In six months, 709 interventions were carried out, as well as 216 emergency room transfers.