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: Thursday, June 12, 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.
Press conference: Red Cross starts temperature measurement in the emergency services
Heat as an underestimated risk factor-paramedics: from now on, measurement with 5,000 thermal hygrometers. We look forward to your participation and ask for a short registration at press@roteskreuz.at.
Datum: 06/12/2025, 9:30 a.m.
Art: Press and
Ort: Wiener Rotes Kreuz, North District Office
Karl-Schäfer-Strasse 8
1210 Wien
Austria
URL: https://www.roteskreuz.at
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