Quand

09/04/2021    
12 h 00 min - 12 h 45 min

Type d’évènement

Speaker
Jean-Marc Philippe, medical advisor to the General Director for Health in emergency and sanitary safety, Direction générale de la santé (DGS).

Content

Each year, between 40 000 and 50 000 people are victims of a sudden death. In less than 10% of the cases, an ICD is used prior to the intervention of emergency services and emergency medical help.

The general management for Health reinforced the modality to access ICD and deployed from January 2020, a national database for ICD. It’s purpose ? To locate ICD and spread their data to all and facilitate its use during a cardiac arrest, encouraging the saving act and its contribution to improve the survival percentage. This conference has as a vocation to introduce its use.