For the first time at the Wiesn: Mobile CT - This doctor is behind it
Created: 09/28/2022, 18:32
By: Armin Roesl
The doctors responsible at the mobile computer tomograph at the Wiesn (from left): Dominik Hinzmann, Viktoria Bogner-Flatz and Philip Kampmann.
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Wiesn hospital: the chief physician of the Ebersberger district clinic provides a novelty at the Oktoberfest to relieve emergency rooms
Ebersberg/Munich – A chief physician at the Ebersberg district clinic has created a worldwide first – the use of a mobile computed tomography device at the Munich Oktoberfest.
The idea: to relieve the emergency rooms in Munich clinics as much as possible or not to burden them too much with Oktoberfest visitors.
The calculation seems to work, as Prof. Dr.
Viktoria Bogner-Flatz said on Tuesday afternoon at an appointment at the "Wiesn Hospital".
That's what the first aid station of the Aicher ambulance on the Oktoberfest grounds is called.
As chief physician in the central emergency room in the district clinic in Ebersberg, Bogner-Flatz knows how important it is to have fast and optimal care and any free capacity.
Not least because of Corona - since the beginning of the pandemic, the 41-year-old has been coordinating with Dr.
Dominik Hinzmann (45) from Kirchheim the distribution of seriously ill Covid patients in intensive care units in Munich clinics.
Both are also medical directors of the Munich and Munich-Land rescue services.
Again and again injuries from falls, fights and beer mugs
In the summer, reports Bogner-Flatz, there were a lot of emergency admissions to the clinics, and not just because of the corona.
After the city of Munich had finally decided to hold the Oktoberfest, she and her colleague Hinzmann considered how to prevent a possible overload of the emergency rooms.
They came up with the idea for a mobile CT.
Computed tomography (CT) creates cross-sectional images of the brain within a few seconds - an examination that emergency physicians usually order for head injuries.
The idea of Bogner-Flatz and Hinzmann: In the case of such injuries - for example after falls, fights or beer mugs - determine immediately at the Oktoberfest whether there is a life-threatening cerebral hemorrhage.
Whether a patient actually has to be taken to a hospital or can be treated at the Oktoberfest.
In the case of severe head injuries, Oktoberfest patients have always been hospitalized.
Already more than 100 examinations
With the mobile CT system from Siemens, which is on loan at the Wiesn, the number of removals could be significantly reduced this year.
"So far we have carried out more than 100 examinations and fished out about 20 serious cases," reports Dr.
Philip Kampman.
He is chief physician of the Aich outpatient clinic and thus also chief physician of the "Wiesn-Krankenhaus".
This has around 60 beds, two treatment rooms for operations, a shock room, a rest room and an isolation tent for patients with corona symptoms.
20 "fished out" cases of cerebral hemorrhage, which the emergency services then took to the hospital.
Together with an image CD of the CT scans and the diagnostics - so that the clinics can continue treatment quickly.
For Viktoria Bogner-Flatz, the other 80 cases without cerebral hemorrhage or serious head injuries play the decisive role: "These 80 were our idea." 80 patients who did not have to be taken to clinics.
World premiere
"We have already received positive feedback from the hospitals," report Bogner-Flatz and Hinzmann.
The number of emergency admissions during an Oktoberfest has decreased noticeably.
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The initiators Bogner-Flatz and Hinzmann explain that only seven days before the start of the Oktoberfest did Munich's Lord Mayor Dieter Reiter agree that the mobile device would be purchased and installed during the Oktoberfest.
As far as you know, this is the first time in the world that a mobile CT device has been used at such a major event.
Most labor intensive time of life
In the weeks before, they had to do a lot of persuading in city and state politics, the two say.
"That was the most work-intensive time of my life so far" - says the chief physician of the central emergency room at the Ebersberg district clinic, the Corona hospital coordinator for Munich, the medical director of the Munich and Munich-Land rescue service and the mother of three Viktoria Bogner-Flatz, who lives with her family in Neubiberg.
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