EPIDEMIC – The bronchiolitis epidemic continues in France against a backdrop of saturation of pediatric emergency services
A virulent return. Put on hold in winter 2020-2021 by the pandemic Covid-19 and scrupulously observed barrier gestures, bronchiolitis is this year at the origin of a record number of hospitalizations. Public Health France thus notes in its latest bulletin “very high visits to the emergency room and hospitalizations for bronchiolitis and at levels higher than those observed at epidemic peaks for more than ten years ».
Direct consequence: the early epidemic – “still in a rising wave”, recalled government spokesperson Olivier Véran – clutters pediatric emergency services already out of breath and fills the waiting rooms of the cabinets a little more. of pediatrics. To limit this congestion, the National Council of the Order of Masseur Physiotherapists and the College of Masso Physiotherapy have indicated that they are “always mobilized”, recalling their “primary role in the care of young patients in town”. And this, even though the use of respiratory physiotherapy is no longer recommended for this childhood disease.
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