[The mobile emergency and intensive care service, a place of transition for families]

Abstract

When the mobile emergency and intensive care service (Smur) intervenes with a child, the parents are in a completely unknown and anxiety-generating situation. The care team helps families to find their place, depending on the medical context and health status of the child. The intervention of the Smur therefore represents a place of transition for the parents.

Keywords: emergency; mort inattendue du nourrisson; paediatric mobile emergency and intensive care service; parent; service mobile d’urgence et de réanimation pédiatrique; transition; unexpected infant death; urgence.