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ORSAY, France (AP) \u2014 Ice. Urgently and in large quantities.<\/p>\n

At a Paris-region hospital, emergency medics needed it to plunge patients into cold-water baths to speedily bring down their temperatures so they wouldn\u2019t join the growing tally of dead<\/span> from a record-smashing heat wave<\/span>. But lacking an ice-making machine, where to get it?<\/p>\n

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A fast-food restaurant helped out last week, saying the hospital could take its ice. Staff also bought ice from the supermarket. The Paris-Saclay Hospital has now ordered its own ice machine, eagerly awaited in the emergency department for a future attack of sizzling heat.<\/p>\n

Whether that hits next week, as France\u2019s weather service says it might, or in summer months ahead, medics and hospital administrators are acutely aware that the battle they\u2019ve just endured will, because of climate change<\/span>, be followed by others. Just as they brace for the annual flu season, they know that fighting heat waves is becoming their new normal<\/span>.<\/p>\n

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So as they catch their breath from what the director of the public hospital described as a \u201chorrible\u201d last week, he and his staff are also gearing up for the next round.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe thought we were ready. We were not actually,\u201d said the director, C\u00e9dric Lussiez.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hospital was working on a 24 hours a day basis because we had to find new solutions in a very short delay,\u201d he said. \u201cWe already learned some lessons.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hospitals are preparing for more inevitable heat waves <\/h2>\n

Efforts to plug some of the holes exposed by the heat wave that shifted eastward to other parts of Europe<\/span> after battering France<\/span>, the United Kingdom and other countries<\/span> are accelerating on a national level, too. <\/p>\n

When France was baking through its hottest days on record last week, French Prime Minister S\u00e9bastien Lecornu announced a 100-million euro ($114-million) spend from this summer on cooling systems for hospitals and other work to keep wards functioning.<\/p>\n

And at the latest in a series of heat-wave crisis meetings, he said Monday that the government is buying 30,000 air-conditioning units for health facilities, with the first deliveries expected \u201cat the end of the week, beginning of next week.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s an absolute priority for us that, if the heat wave returns, the hospital situation be a lot less strained,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The World Health Organization<\/span> on Tuesday described the heat wave as \u201ca dress rehearsal\u201d for summers that \u201cwill be harder.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\u201cEurope is warming at more than twice the global average. Heat waves are no longer one-off freak events,\u201d it said. \u201cEvery summer we fail to prepare for them is a summer we pay for in lives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heart attacks and other heat-exposure emergencies surge<\/h2>\n

At the Paris-Saclay Hospital, patients suffering from heat exposure started arriving in a surge on June 20, said Dr. Nicolas Gonzales, head of the emergency department.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like a big mountain,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was like that for seven days. So it was very intense.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cIn winter, we know we\u2019ll have influenza epidemics and probably COVID as well. And now, in the summer, we\u2019re going to have the climate crisis,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The first patient he treated in this heat wave was an emergency call-out, for a 50-year-old man in a coma at home and with a temperature of about 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit). His family said he seemed fine one minute, but was unconscious the next, Gonzales said. He was rushed to the hospital for critical care.<\/p>\n

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Then came the flood: heart attacks, dehydration, kidney malfunctions and other heat-related problems, impacting all age groups, from children to older people living alone.<\/p>\n

\u201cHeat is a physical assault. It is a physical assault on the body,\u201d Gonzales said. \u201cAnd when the body can no longer adapt \u2014 or, unfortunately, is no longer able to fight off that assault \u2014 you don\u2019t feel it coming, and the heart can stop beating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hospitals are urgently upgrading heat defenses<\/h2>\n

Paris-Saclay Hospital is new and has air-conditioning, but three older hospitals that are part of its group, which Lussiez heads, aren\u2019t so well defended against the heat. It tested them arduously. <\/p>\n

To prevent medicines from spoiling, they had to be cooled with a temporary solution of electric fans and blocks of ice. Student nurses were recruited to help with the work of keeping patients hydrated. The thermometer hit 33 C (91 F) on the top, most exposed floor of a psychiatric unit, Lussiez said. <\/p>\n

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He\u2019s now urgently equipping that unit with a cool room for patients on each floor and organizing other renovation works and changes, including moving a department for elderly patients to the new hospital.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ll be in a better situation next week than we were last week,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Associated Press journalist Alex Turnbull contributed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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