For Anne Rocher, psychologist in resuscitation service, the care was trivialized, but the disarray of caregivers persists in the face of the deaths of predominantly non-vaccinated people.
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Anne Rocher is a psychologist in the resuscitation service of the avicenne hospital, in Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis). It analyzes the evolution of the CVIV-19 caregiver report after the beginning of the epidemic.
What is the profile of people with CVIV-19 currently admitted into resuscitation?
There is currently a sharp decrease in the number of people with CVIV-19 in resuscitation. There are always risk factors that are now known. But in January-February, the patient profile has changed. There are almost no vaccinated people, apart from immunocompromised people. It is true that it questions, because there is the feeling that it could have been avoided. There is no judgment, caregivers treat everyone, regardless of life choices. But, knowing that these people could have avoided happening there, it reaches us. Especially since resuscitation as elsewhere COVID-19 continues to kill. For some people, despite all that is implemented, the death will be inevitable, and this is also the case for young people.
Some people arrive with an opposite speech to vaccination and maintain it even by being in resuscitation. They are in a form of antivax proselytism when they are dying. This refers caregivers to disability. Because what is terrible for a caregiver is to know that we have solutions and do not use them. Nevertheless, every patient has his freedom and caregivers strive to respect the will of each.
How has the relationship to the death of caregivers have evolved since the beginning of the epidemic?
There was a moment when the service worked with 32 beds occupied only by COVID patients. We were in a kind of litany, a permanent repetition, with a magnifying magnifying glass on the failure of treatments. When one has conditioned a country with the resuscitation places and we see that, even there, we do not happen, it is very difficult to live. In the first wave, the families were far from the hospital and not able to hold the hand of his loved one when he is at the end of his life, we know that it adds suffering. But, at the same time, when you are careful and we are the only custodian of the last look, it is also a very difficult moment that sometimes haunts. Attend, with a heavy, long and complex support system, which mobilizes a lot of caregivers, repeated deaths, it’s exhausting. We have a feeling of helplessness.
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