Yesterday morning, the calm that reigns in the corridors of the intensive care unit is deceptive. Of the 20 beds in the service, 19 are occupied and three of the five stretchers in the resuscitation and vital emergencies unit (Ruv). In this new unit, a sort of interface between the emergency department and the sheave, the days are not alike. “Sometimes there are plenty of empty places and yet it is very hectic because two or three patients mobilize all our attention”, relates Malika Valenza, health manager. “Other days, there are torrents of patients”, adds doctor Bruno Marquer, head of the intensive care unit. In the boxes of Ruv, a patient received the day before for a myocardial infarction which became complicated
