Revolution in emergency services: paramedics become emergency doctors’ helpers!

Revolution in emergency services: paramedics become emergency doctors’ helpers!

An innovative pilot project will be launched in the Main-Taunus district from September 1st, which aims to make the work of emergency services easier and improve emergency medical care. The “Intensive Critical Care Emergency Paramedic” will offer a new type of training for paramedics, allowing them to better respond to the challenges of emergencies. This not only involves further training in symptom treatment, but also the ability to make diagnoses on your own responsibility. This measure comes at just the right time, as many people tend to call an emergency doctor when in doubt, as waiting times at general practitioners and emergency rooms are often long.

A crucial point of the project is the idea of ​​Sascha Zach, an experienced paramedic with over 30 years of professional experience. He wants rescue personnel to be able to take on more responsibility so that they can act more quickly in critical moments. The use of telemedicine, in which emergency doctors can provide advice via video link, provides additional support without placing excessive strain on the emergency doctors themselves. In particular, this could improve assessments of the urgency of medical situations, which are often challenging for laypeople.

Background of the project

The “Ambulance Video Assistant” project, launched two years ago, has already shown how telemedicine can be effectively integrated into emergency care. Emergency physicians have access to current data and on-site monitors via video links, enabling a faster and more precise response. These successes now form the basis for the new training program, which will be evaluated over the next two years with the aim of achieving state certification.

Emergency medicine doctor Dr. Martin Hoffmann. He believes that with this new qualification, paramedics will be able to make clinical decisions that were previously reserved exclusively for emergency physicians. “If we train the paramedics correctly, they can act independently in many cases and only call in the emergency doctors when it is really necessary,” says Hoffmann.

Resource problems in the rescue service

However, a significant problem remains the limited number of doctors and emergency vehicles in the rescue service. Many emergency services face several challenges because both the demand for medical help and the amount of free resources cannot be reconciled. It is therefore all the more important to find new ways to work more efficiently even in stressful situations that often lead to overload.

With the start of the pilot project, those responsible hope to significantly reduce the burden on emergency doctors and significantly improve patient care. The success of the project could serve as a model for other regions in Germany and revolutionize emergency care as a whole.

If the pilot project achieves its goals, it could potentially represent a colorful turnaround in emergency medicine in Germany. A progressive approach that not only helps relieve the burden on medical professionals, but also benefits patients.