Bronchiolitis is a well-known autumn ailment apprehended by emergency services and pediatric professionals. The seasonal epidemic of this respiratory infection of viral origin, which affects very young children, is so precocious and so virulent that the department’s emergency services are faced with overall more sustained activity, in terms of month of November 2022.
Pediatric services in Eure-et-Loir facing a “tense flow” with the bronchiolitis epidemic
“We are currently at a peak”, explains Yvon le Tilly, deputy director of the Hospitals of Chartres, referring to the activity in the pediatric emergencies, at the Coudray hospital. “The service is under tension but we are coping, as well as possible. The situation is difficult for the teams but for the moment, this does not impact the proper functioning of emergencies. »
“Currently, 80% of pediatric beds are occupied for this pathology”
Yvon le Tilly (Deputy Director of Chartres Hospitals)
Of the 75 daily visits to pediatric emergencies in Chartres, the majority of patients are treated for the treatment of respiratory infection, according to Yvon le Tilly. As for the pediatric service of the Hospitals of Chartres, whose number of beds increases from 17 to 24, at this time of the year, to absorb the seasonal activity, it is monopolized by cases of bronchiolitis. “Currently, 80% of pediatric beds are occupied for this pathology”, specifies the deputy director.
“We have children on stretchers, in hallways…”: why pediatric emergencies see red
On the side of the Dreux hospital, the incidence of the bronchiolitis epidemic seems to be lower. Monday, November 15, fifteen of the 21 beds in the pediatric ward were occupied, including eight for cases of bronchiolitis. At noon, a single child hospitalized for bronchiolitis was placed on respiratory assistance, in Dreux.
Sebastien Couratin and Pascale Rouchaud