Digital rescue control center in West Thuringia: Future of Emergency Aid!

Digital rescue control center in West Thuringia: Future of Emergency Aid!

Alfred-Ley-Straße, 99310 Arnstadt, Deutschland - The emergency services in the ILM district and Wartburgkreis experience a digital upheaval. After the activation of the central digital rescue control centers in West Thuringia, all rescue, fire brigade and emergency operations will have to be coordinated in the future. In the new control center, which connects the existing locations in Arnstadt and Eisenach, the emergency services can benefit from an improved flow of information that leads to a faster response time and more efficient use of resources. This development is regarded as a security for the population, as mz.de reports.

Background of this reform is a long -term process to modernize the rescue control centers in Thuringia. The illusion of a new building in Schwabhausen for around 17 million euros was abandoned because the Gotha district has leaked out of the special -purpose association. Instead, around 4 million euros flowed into the digital technology, which made this conversion possible. District Administrator Petra Enders describes the project as exemplary for the region and emphasizes that digitization could make the need for a new building complex obsolete. Some of the investments on the way to the digital control center were also put into the technical infrastructure of the danger defense center in Arnstadt, which was opened in 2022. There around 2.5 million euros flowed into the conversion and expansion, including the control technology, in the amount of around 1.1 million euros, such as Insuedthueringen.de reported.

digital innovation in emergency medicine

Digitization also has far -reaching consequences for emergency medicine itself. In 2023 there were 13.4 million missions in the emergency services, while around 12.4 million patients were treated outpatient in hospitals. Every minute counts in critical situations, such as heart attacks or strokes. However, delays in these cases can have serious consequences: In the case of internal bleeding, mortality per minute increases by about 1 percent. Digitization could significantly improve the processes here. For example, smartwatches could be used for the transmission of vital data or video calls to make the first diagnoses, reports Fraunhofer Iese .

One of the problems in implementing these digital solutions are the small -scale structures in the emergency services and the organizational challenges that arise from the cooperation between different institutions. The integration options of modern technologies are given, but are usually not fully exploited due to legal obstacles and a certain skepticism. Nevertheless, the enthusiasm for innovative approaches shows that there is a lot of potential in the air.