Integrating cross-border emergency medicine systems: Securing future preclinical medical workforce for remote medical services

Publication date: March 2018Source: Best Practice & Research Clinical Anaesthesiology, Volume 32, Issue 1Author(s): Tomasz Ucinski, Grzegorz Dolata, Robert Hełminiak, Lutz Fischer, Steffen Fleßa, Bernhard Brehmer, Armin Viert, Volker Grundmann, Sebastian Rehberg, Kathrin Krügel, Maud Partecke, Peter Brinkrolf, Klaus Hahnenkamp, Konrad MeissnerThe European Union intends to enable its citizens to interact across borders in relevant areas of society and culture to further integrate neighboring regions. Medicine has not been at the core of recent EU-funded efforts in central Europe, partially 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 preclinical administration of medical care, which are already transforming practices across developed countries in central Europe. Moreover, demographic and social changes are transforming not only patients but also health care providers, thus leading to an increased need for specialized medical personnel, particularly in regions close to formerly secluding borders.The EU-funded cooperation project presented in this article is located in the Euroregion Pomerania, which consists of northeastern Germany and northwestern Poland. This project emerged because of the need to solve practical emergency medicine–related problems for many years, which brought partners together. Unfortunately, adm...
Source: Best Practice and Research Clinical Anaesthesiology - Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: research