Limitless: Emergency doctors and paramedics are increasingly on duty in the neighboring country
Salzburg emergency doctors were on duty 52 times in the first half of 2022 in Bavaria, near the border. Conversely, Bavarian emergency doctors came 29 times to the city of Salzburg and the entire state to help out there if necessary.
The numbers include the use of emergency medical vehicles as well as emergency medical helicopters. Mutual help not only comes into play in larger cases, but also, for example, when the emergency doctors on duty in the respective country are already treating patients and are not available. The limitless operations in Salzburg are coordinated by the Red Cross, in the districts of Traunstein and Berchtesgadener Land by the control center for the rescue and fire brigade in Traunstein.
In addition to emergency medical services for life-threatening conditions such as heart attacks, strokes or serious accidents, there are also so-called emergency services and ambulance drives, where rescue vehicles without an emergency doctor and ambulance are used. Salzburg vehicles and teams treated Bavarian patients exactly 30 times in the first half of 2022, and Bavarian ambulances treated patients 49 times in the city and state of Salzburg. “These 49 missions are divided into nine transfer trips from the Christian Doppler Clinic or the state hospital to a Bavarian clinic, plus six trips home, all from the state hospital, and 34 ambulance returns,” says Josef Gschwendner, Managing Director of the integrated control center in Traunstein. also responsible for the Berchtesgadener Land.
Coordinated via the control centers in Salzburg and Traunstein
Ambulance and emergency services are usually coordinated via the control centers in Salzburg and Traunstein, but they often take place spontaneously, for example, if a Salzburg ambulance is informed of a bicycle accident by passers-by on the way through the Kleine Deutsches Eck, this is what happens at the beginning of July, when a 69-year-old Viennese fell with his bike between Unterjettenberg and the Sichlersteig and remained unconscious. Other cyclists stopped an ambulance from the Salzburg Red Cross that was returning to Pinzgau without a patient. The Salzburg paramedics took care of the injured cyclist until the meeting of the Bavarian colleagues.