[Activity in an emergency care unit: experience of a patient care team]

An emergency and intensive care medical team (physicians, specialised nurses in anesthesia, paramedics) works in a mobile intensive care unit and in a Emergency room. The functions are to provide intensive care, to validate the pre-hospital diagnosis and also to prepare the optimal hospital admission. This organisation realize a "short route" to emergency hospitalisation. A questionnaire to this medical team enquired for their appreciation of the activity, for their implication and feeling, individual and collective, of death's experiences, of works organisation, and of requirements. Mainly, it appears that, with high level of education and various qualification, occupational stress and negative impact on patient care are not described. Further studies are needed to verify.