[Intensive care handling: specific expectations of rehabilitation].

For the severe head injured patients, the way of going from coma to arousal is considerably different from one patient to the other, and it is not always easy to determine the appropriate moment for taking them out of intensive care, into rehabilitation. This is the reason why, instead of considering these two treatments as successive phases, it is better to consider them as a collaboration process. The objective of this paper is to describe the needs of this type of patients, by using the data gathered on a weekly basis in the medical data department of the Centre Médical de l'Argentière, on patients admitted in 2002 in the rehabilitation and post-intensive care departments.

[National study of screening practices for hepatitis C among hemodialysis patients. Hepatitis Group].

French and American consensus conferences on hepatitis C confirmed the burden of that disease, especially in high risk populations. In France, the seroprevalence of HCV is about 20% among haemodialysed patients. This study aimed at describing the French screening practices in haemodialysed patients.