Introduction: The health impact of cold and hot waves is major. Nevertheless, the respective impact of extreme high and low temperatures remains controversial.
Method: The daily number of (1) patients managed by SAMU 93 dispatching centre – primary care requirement indicator, (2) Mobile Intensive Care Unit (MICU) interventions – patient severity indicator and (3) number of deaths have been recorded.
Introduction: The atmospheric pollution is a growing public health problem. The highly urbanized regions such as Paris area seem particularly exposed. However, the overall health impact is poorly documented.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: We aimed to evaluate the impact of the same-day GPs' strike and terrorist attacks on a call centre's activity.
Methods: We compared the number of calls received, the number of patient's medical files (PMFs) created and the number of mobile ICU (MICU) dispatched per hour on Friday, 13 November, to the repository established on the five previous Fridays. As previously published, the variation criterion was set to an activity variation above 20% for more than 2 h.