Integrating cross-border emergency medicine systems: securing future pre-clinical medical workforce for remote medical services

Publication date: Available online 13 April 2018Source: Best Practice & Research Clinical AnaesthesiologyAuthor(s): Tomasz Ucinski, Gregorz Dolata, Robert Helminiak, Lutz Fischer, Steffen Fleßa, Bernhard Brehmer, Armin Vierth, Volker Grundmann, Sebastian Rehberg, Kathrin Krügel, Maud Partecke, Peter Brinkrolf, Klaus Hahnenkamp, Konrad MeissnerAbstractThe European Union intends to enable its citizens to interact across borders in relevant areas of society and culture in order to further integrate neighboring regions. Medicine has not been at the core of recent EU-funded efforts in central Europe, in part due to significant differences in health care administration, delivery, reimbursement, and culture. However, impeding changes in social structure, and centralization of specialized care warrant changes in pre-clinical administration of medical care, which are already transforming practices across developed countries in central Europe. Moreover, demographic and social changes are not only transforming patients, but also providers of health care, leading to an increased need for specialized medical personnel particularly in regions close to formerly secluding borders.The EU-funded cooperation project presented here is located in the Euro-region Pomerania, consisting of north-eastern Germany and north-western Poland. It arose from the need to solve practical emergency-medicine-related problems for many years, which brought partners together. Unfortunately, administrative and me...
Source: Best Practice and Research Clinical Anaesthesiology - Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research