[Activity in an emergency care unit: experience of a patient care team]. / Activité d'une salle de tri-déchocage: son vécu par les équipes soignantes.

An emergency and intensive care medical team (physicians, specialised nurses in anesthesia, paramedics) works in a mobile intensive care unit and in a Emergency room. The functions are to provide intensive care, to validate the pre-hospital diagnosis and also to prepare the optimal hospital admission. This organisation realize a "short route" to emergency hospitalisation. A questionnaire to this medical team enquired for their appreciation of the activity, for their implication and feeling, individual and collective, of death's experiences, of works organisation, and of requirements. Mainly, it appears that, with high level of education and various qualification, occupational stress and negative impact on patient care are not described. Further studies are needed to verify.

[On the management of aged patients in intensive and emergency care services]. / Réflexion sur la prise en charge des personnes âgées en réanimation et en médecine d'urgence.

The management of the elderly patients by the emergency medical service and in the intensive care unit refers to the human and professional experience of the medical team. The treatment of this kind of patients lays down a rule of conduct with the point of view of the economical and moral aspect.