[Efficiency of utilization of resources used at a polyvalent intensive care and resuscitation center]

Along the lunes of a survey by GIRTI of 2,710 patients hospitalized in the 14 costituing CRTI, a parallel research has been carried out 350 patients in a polyvalent CRTI in order to compare the results. Omega score has been calculated to evaluate the intensity of the supplied treatment and consequently to settle efficiency of the resources. The results show a greater number of treated patients compared to those only monitored for intensive examination and a majority of patients from medical and surgical departments, compared to those from traumatological dpts. This proves that the intensity of treatment depends significantly and progressively on the diagnosis, seriousness and, above all, duration of hospitalization, with the only difference that more resources were needed for those patients who died than for those survived. Despite the coincidence of the quality of the results, this survey diverges from that of GIRTI as far as the quantity of utilized resources, which were about a half of those reported in their survey. This is probably due to the lack of medical and particularly nursing personnel as well as instruments especially monitoring ones, which prevented CRTI from working at its maximum. Then it has been pointed out that some pathologies (extrahospital cardiac arrest and pulmonary embolism) which caused losses of the utilized resources, could improve by creating Emergency and Urgency Departments.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)