French in the Ambulance Team
From schema to handover
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- Cards
- 136
- Categories
- 8
- Price
- €1.29
- Language
- French
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What is in this deck
With this deck you learn French team communication in emergency medical work: structured handover, tasking and read-back, the ten-for-ten pause and the debrief.
French crews carry their own set of letters, and translating the English ones back does not get you understood.
The structured handover is SAED: Situation, Antécédents, Évaluation, Demande. The account of a condition is the bilan, the control room is the régulation médicale, and the doctor who leads the medical side of a larger job is the DSM. On the radio you meet alternat, parlez and terminé, and the deck says which of them the French lists actually carry.
Looking back afterwards has two names, débriefing à chaud and débriefing à froid; the cards say what separates them and where the RETEX belongs.
The deck stays with the language of the team. Decisions about a patient are not its subject and never will be.
The categories decide what comes up: start with “Handover and situation report” alone and add the rest when you are ready.
You learn French. The cards, the categories and the usage notes are in English, so you never have to learn through a third language.
What you learn
- SAED: Situation, Antécédents, Évaluation, Demande
- Bilan and préavis before you arrive
- Régulation médicale and DSM: who leads what
- Alternat, parlez, terminé: the radio in France
- Débriefing à chaud and à froid
The categories
8 categories sort the 136 cards. You can filter by category and take on what is due right now.
- Handover and situation report
- Schemas and assessment
- Command and mission
- Roles in the team
- Safeguards against error
- Situational awareness
- Radio discipline
- Debriefing
What you get
Here are three of the 136 cards you get when you buy the deck.
With foreign-language content the answers are read aloud as well, so you know how the words and sentences are pronounced.
Question
the handover at hospital
Answer
la transmission à l'hôpital
Note
[la tʁɑ̃smisjɔ̃] · it is the point where most details get lost; that is why it has a fixed form · Word field: la transmission (handing on), l'équipe d'accueil (the place that takes over)
Question
the pre-alert by radio
Answer
le préavis par radio
Note
[lə pʁeavi] · it comes before the handover and is shorter; it says who is coming and when · Word field: le préavis (the word ahead), l'arrivée (arriving)
Question
“We are ten minutes out.”
Answer
« Nous arrivons dans dix minutes. »
Note
[nuz‿aʁivɔ̃] · a time the receiving team can plan with; “bientôt” is not one · Word field: l'heure d'arrivée (the time of arrival expected), la planification (planning ahead)
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136 cards, sorted into 8 categories.
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On iPhone and iPad from iOS 26, and on Apple Watch. One purchase covers the family through Family Sharing.
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