Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, ’Woman Mother Child Hospital (HFME)’, Lyon (France)
The Woman Mother Child Hospital (HFME) opened in March 2008. It's activities groups together those of two former Lyon pediatric hospitals.
The pediatric intensive care service of the Femme Mère Enfant hospital from now on centralises all the pediatric emergencies of the Lyon region. The number of consultations expected each year is 60,000.
This service includes 3 units:
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Emergency Unit
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Short stay hospitalization unit (25 beds).
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Special surgical intensive care unit (23 beds).
The short stay hospitalization unit receives hopitalized children in an acute situation and for a short stay. Within this unit there is a section of continuous care (beds) allowing to careof severe cases. The children ? from this hospitalization are either transfered to the pedriatric services where they ? or return home.
The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit receives children aged from a few days old to 18 years old (including new born babies) in serious distress. The Intensive Care Unit groups together 2 former intensive care units under the leadership of Prof Floret that received 450 children in a year of which 2/3 were incubated abd ventilated.
Infectious diseases, notably respiratory diseases, represent an important part of the causes for hospitalization of patients in the different units.
Prof Floret, coordinator of the pediatric intensive care services always been interested in child infectious pathologies and knew how to develop an important research clinic activity with various partners, such as Fondation Mérieux. Thus a collaboration was born and given the opportunity to carry out various studies concerned with respiratory diseases such as bronchiolites and pneumonia.
