Attention shift: Red Cross press conference Temperature measurement in the emergency services-new date: 18.06.2025, 9.30 a.m.

After the killing spree at a Graz school, the Red Cross will move the planned press conference to the presentation of a new project in the emergency services to next week.

Frequent and more intensive heat periods mainly meet older people and people with previous illnesses. The German Robert Koch Institute and the MedUni Vienna have been pointing out a clearly detectable heat-related deprivterity for years. So far, however, neither temperature nor air humidity at the place of the patient has been recorded and documented on the inside. As a result, the anamnesis remains incomplete.

The Austrian Red Cross equips its paramedics: now with compact thermal hygrometers, which measure essential environmental parameters on the scene. The determined values ​​are handed over with the patient: handed over to the further treating area. Thanks to this continuous information chain from the living room to the emergency room, heat-associated diseases can be better recorded and categorized according to ICD code.

Am Podium:

Gerry Foitik

Federal Rescue Commander of the Austrian Red Cross

Hans-Peter Hutter

Senior doctor and deputy head of the Department of Environmental Hygiene and Environmental Medicine of the MedUni Vienna

Andreas Schaffhauser

Scientific General Director Geosphere Austria

If: Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 9.30 a.m.

Wo: Wiener Rotes Kreuz, North District Office, Karl-Schäfer-Straße 8, 1210 Vienna

You can find the live stream for the press conference here or on the Facebook page of the Austrian Red Cross.

We look forward to your participation and ask for a short registration at press@roteskreuz.at.

Temperature measurement in the emergency services – new appointment: 18.06.2025, 9.30 a.m.

Media appointment moved to the killing spree in Graz-new project: 5,000 thermal hygrometers measure temperature and humidity at the scene from now on. At the podium: – Gerry Foitiko Federal Rescue Commander of the Austrian Red Cross – Hans -Peter Hutter Senior Physician and Deputy Head of the Department of Environmental Hygiene and Environmental Medicine at MedUni Vienna – Andreas Schaffhauser Scientific General Director Geosphere Austria

Datum: 06/18/2025, 00:09 a.m.

Art: Press and

Ort: Wiener Rotes Kreuz, North District Office

Karl-Schäfer-Strasse 8

1210 Wien

Austria

URL: https://www.roteskreuz.at