1. LECTURE N° 50 SAMU
MEDICAL REGULATION
FRENCH DISASTER PUBLIC
HEALTH WHITE PLANS
Miguel Martinez Almoyna MD MCUPH
SAMU of Paris
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2. A Public Health Civil Defense white
plans for french hospitals and SAMU:
TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED
NATIONAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL
SYSTEM (IEMS) AND NETWORK
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3. French IEMS
(like deffined in Declaration of Jalisco)
MOH civil defense specific
organisation
for disastrous sanitary events
1. Pre hospital network sub-system
2. Hospital network sub-system
3. SAMU control and medical
regulation sub-system
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4. THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY CARE
PRE-HOSPITAL
SUB- SYSTEM NETWORK
= Primary Care network for GP
Emergencies+
= Emergency Ambulance fleet
resources for emergency
transporting patients (MICU*,
Rescue Units*, Ambulances**)
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5. THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY CARE
HOSPITAL
SUB- SYSTEM NETWORK
= Secondary hospital emergency and MICU
(SMUR) resources are monitored by local
(and neighbouring SAMU)
= Tertiary , Specialized emergency and ICU
resources are monitored by neighbouring
and regional SAMU
= Zonal leading Hospitals for NBC disasters
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6. The French SAMU and SMUR
Network for Emergency Care
• In day to day medical individual
emergencies
• In collective public health mass
emergencies
• In France (continental and islands!) and
even in foreign countries
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8. THE SAMU SUB-SYSTEM SYSTEM
IMPLANTED IN EACH « DEPARTEMENT »
CAPITAL TOWN HOSPITALS
AS TWO ROLES IN CASE OF EMERGENCY
The responsible physician (SAMU medical regulator
physician) as the two roles
A technical medical role for deciding and organizing
the initial medical emergency care
An Administrative Authority emergency Delegated
Role for deciding alerting and initiating « plans
blancs » and « plan rouge » Public Health
emergency resources involvment
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9. The French SAMU emergency tele-
medecine system and network:
A national medical emergencies specific
and protected exclusive hotline (15)
Plus a health care tele-communication
network beetween emergency regional
integrated medical emergency hospital
(ER OR ICU) and out of hospital resources
(MICU Ambulances)
Plus a MOH national civil defense policy
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improoves not only quality of care but also equity of resource
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distribution!
10. The Hospital and SAMU
« Plan Blanc » emergency
care BIEMS sub-system
Four tiered
1 local Hospital « white plan »
2 « Departement network » SAMU + DDASS « white
plan blanc »
3 Civil Defense Zone regional network
« zonal white plan » ARH+DRASS+Regional SAMU
4 MOH + SAMU de Paris = national and
international disasters (+Foreign Office)
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11. Exemples:
• An explosion in Toulouse
• A mass casualty in a Corsica Island
Stadium or Charles de Gaule Airport
• An Paris subway attentate
• A disaster in Latin America or an Air
France aircraft terrorist attack …
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12. A NATIONAL SAMU NETWORK BUT
WITH 3 LEVELS
1. « Départements » SAMU (and
neighbouring
« departements »)
2. « Public Health Civil Defense
Zones » regional SAMU
3. « BMOH + SAMU of Paris »
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14. A NATIONAL COORDINATED (?)
AND EMERGENCY CARE
PUBLIC HEALTH SYSTEM?
Ministery of Health +
Military Defense
Civil Defense Fire Men +Rescue (plan
Rouge)
Private, ONG
Foreign Office
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15. For More Informations on
Emergency Tele-medecine and
SAMU regulation
• mmartinezalmoyna.samu@invivo.edu
• www.uvp5.univ-paris5.fr/samu
(in different lenguages)
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16. French MOH and SAMU
documents on Public
Health Civil Defense
• WWW.sante.gouv.fr
• www.uvp5.univ-paris5.fr/samu
• www.samudeparis.org
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18. Exporting SAMU , IEMS ,
Training in Emergency
Telemedecine and Medical
Regulation
• From Chile to Mexico through Andean
poor countries
• From Algeria to Barhein through
Nigeria
• From Brazil to Japan through Iran
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