INTERVIEW – Djillali Annane, head of the intensive care unit at the Raymond-Poincaré hospital in Garches, deplores the lack of awareness of this disease responsible for 80,000 deaths per year in France.
Professor Djillali Annane is head of the adult medical intensive care unit at the Raymond-Poincaré hospital in Garches and director of the Larene team: Laboratory for the study of the neuroendocrine response to sepsis (UMR1173 infection & inflammation, Inserm, UVSQ, Paris-Saclay University). During the Covid crisis, this doctor dedicated to the most difficult cases was one of the media “white coats” who enlightened the public on the seriousness of Sars-CoV-2 infection and the necessary humanity that required its support.
LE FIGARO. – Sepsis, what is it ?
PROFESSOR DJILLALI ANNANE. – It is an abnormal response of our body in the grip of an infection, by a virus, a bacteria, a parasite, a fungus… Ordinarily, when we are contaminated by a pathogen, the body develops inflammation, it is a physiological response. which aims to rid us of the intruder.
In the vast majority of cases, this happens correctly, without complications…
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