“Further discussion can be omitted,” wrote the management of the Red Cross Upper Austria after criticism of paramedic training and the lack of strategic allocation of the ambulances. But this attempt failed, or triggered further counter-reactions – such as an email from emergency doctors to the “Krone”.
“The current situation seems increasingly unbearable to us!” The senior emergency physicians at the Kepler University Hospital in Linz – four emergency medical bases are coordinated here – have had enough. You see in the current system, in which paramedics – “with an absurdly short training”, as you write in an email to the “Krone” – are sent to emergency patients, “in the worst case a patient endangerment”. In addition, there is a great deal of frustration among the “not in abundance anyway” emergency doctors, because they are often sent to operations where they are not actually needed. According to an internal survey, this accounts for up to 55 percent of the emergency doctor alerts. The “Krone” has reported on insufficient training, a lack of paramedics and the deployment strategy – the nearest ambulance, regardless of the crew, is used for normal patient transport, heart attacks, light as well as serious accidents sent – put the finger on an open wound. It is well known that the Red Cross wrote in a query response to the country precisely because of this problem, “that further discussion can be omitted”, because – let’s sum it up succinctly – everything appropriate and compliant with the law. “This is a rather clumsy attempt to nip any optimization of the status quo in the bud. On our part – i.e. on the part of the emergency doctor – this only leads to a lack of understanding and displeasure,” write the emergency doctors, whose names are known to the editors, but who we protect from reprisals in everyday work through anonymity.
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