[Management of a patient with severe limb trauma]

The management of a patient with limb trauma begins with a rapid assessment of the lesions in order to prioritise the treatment of life-threatening lesions, primarily haemorrhage. Severe limb trauma is defined by the presence of specific severity criteria and requires the injured person to be referred to a specialised severe trauma centre. The prognosis is twofold, both vital and functional, based on the speed as well as the quality of immediate pre-hospital care, specific hospital care and the prevention of secondary complications.

[Crisis management in the face of SARS-CoV-2: management and leadership in health care]

The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has forced frontline health care teams to make radical and rapid adjustments. Aside from the danger of catalysing and integrating, the crisis provides an opportunity to rediscover the very essence of the art of caring: an ability to be present for oneself, for others and for the world. This pandemic is shattering everyone's comfort zones, on the social, professional, psychological and ethical level. It is reviving our profound humanity, imposing with humility coordinated actions, while allowing a degree of subsidiarity in the adjustments.