The service Parisian hospitals reported a total of 300 people hospitalized, 80 in serious condition high after the terrorist attacks of Islamic State in Paris.
Nine attacks, six armed and three explosions rocked the night of Friday to the French capital.
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Dr. Clement Tournon lived in the emergency department where he works in Paris a night of "organized chaos" among volunteers, nurses or doctors and, above all, gunshot victims of the attacks.
"I called towards 22H30," he told AFP this doctor 30 years Saint-Antoine hospital. "I warned that there was a 'white plan' ', ie a series of special measures to deal with an exceptional situation, which gives more staff and equipment to the hospital, he added.
This plan was enacted to deal with the influx of victims of the attacks that left at least 128 dead in Paris and its suburbs, and 250 wounded.
In the emergency department, had "many, many people," says the doctor, including "voluntary".
Emergency doctors are treating the wounded, who come in groups. These are mainly bullet wounds, in some cases seriously, during the attacks in the Parisian restaurant Le Petit Cambodge and the Bataclan concert hall, "forty" total explains.
Most were "wounds in the limbs, shrapnel". "It was real war medicine".
There were desperate cases. "I do not think we have reached the most serious, but there were errors of orientation" of patients in different services, regrets, as Saint-Antoine does not specialize in the care of multiple trauma, unlike other French hospitals.
"In particular (...) we are not ready, but we are formed," he says.
With its internal physicians, personally he attended Tournon "seven or eight patients" overnight until it was, at five o'clock.
He did not let go of what could feel to the horror of the situation: "It is a somewhat special time when you concentrate on your work. Feeling a little panic, but control. In the midst of the action, you forget. "
"It's one of the few moments in which, strangely, did not feel stress."
In regard to your coworkers, nobody collapsed, but "some were more affected than others."
In crisis situations, when there is enough staff, hospitals are able to get ahead, he says.
"Emergencies are relatively well organized at an exceptional situation like this," he adds. "What disturbs are those close calls," he says.
"As usual, relatives (victims) left us a deep impression," he says. "Come to a loved one with a bullet in the head, chest, chest (...) They create a 'over-stress' for all."
Without saying so openly, betrays his emotion when he talks about a young woman whose partner is probably dead. "His family came to me: 'In fact, what we do for her now," he asked.