Recently, the rescue helicopter stationed in Niebüll can be alerted to life -saving operations in the neighboring Denmark even in the dark. This was made possible by new agreements that the Danish region of Syddanmark and the DRF air rescue were closed in early June. This continues to consistently continue the close -border cooperation, which has been growing continuously since the station opening in 2005. At that time, the Interreg program, which as a central funding instrument for German-Danish cooperation laid the basis for the Niebüller air savers on Danish soil, provided an important impulse.
“We are very pleased that after the switch to 24h operation last year, we are now available for life-saving operations beyond the border,” emphasizes Melina Optenhöfel, senior HEMS TC and deputy head of ward in Niebüll. “Due to the contracts that have come into force on the 1st June, we can now also be part of the emergency care in Denmark. In cooperation with the colleagues of the floor -bound emergency services on site, we bring seriously injured or ill patients in emergency medical help and quickly and gently transport them to the stable hospital.”
How does a nightly use go beyond the border?
The control center AMK Odense asks the availability of Christoph Europe 5 at Krls Nord in Harrislee. The German dispatchers then transmit the operational data to the helicopter team via alarm. In July the first nightly use took place north of the border: With the keyword “Unclear Thorax pain”, Christoph Europa 5 was called to a family home on the small Belt east of Apenrade at 9:18 p.m. Even during the exploration, the team could see that both a Danish ambulance and a Danish were already on site with an emergency doctor. After landing, the emergency doctor and the emergency paramedic examined the patient who was already in an ambulance. As usual for German-Danish missions, the medical handover took place in English. It quickly became clear that the patient suffered from an acute heart attack and had to be cared for as quickly as possible in the cardiac catheter laboratory in the Odense University Hospital on the Danish island of Fyn. Communication with the clinic and the transmission of all vital parameters, such as the EKG, generally take over the Danish teams. With the help of the digital patient file standardized in Denmark, the receiving clinic has the opportunity to prepare for all special features of the patient such as allergies or known previous illnesses in advance.
During the 23-minute flight to Odense, the patient could be kept stable throughout the entire time. The flight to the island of Fyn leads, among other things, over a longer waterway. In order to be prepared in the best possible way even with such oversight without safety landing, all necessary precautions were taken in order to be able to provide the patient as a medically as much as possible in the event of a possible deterioration in the condition. On board, the rescue helicopter is equipped with mechanical resuscitation aid, which enables effective thoracic compression even during the flight.
The transport service of the clinic was already ready at the Bodenlandenplatz in Odense and accompanied the patient and the DRF air rescue team directly into the cardiac catheter laboratory. According to the medical handover made in English, the patient was subjected to a life -saving cardiac catheter examination with subsequent intervention. The great advantage of the use of Christoph Europa 5 was that the transport time was only 23 minutes of flight, while an ambulance would have taken around 100 minutes to the clinic.
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