Bodo Gorgass

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Dr. Bodo Gorgass
Bodo Gorgass, 2009

Bodo Gorgaß (born October 19, 1940 in Wiesbaden ) is a German anesthetist , intensive care physician and emergency physician , senior field physician in reserve as well as a specialist author and freelance journalist. He is considered to be one of the major pioneers of emergency medicine and air rescue in Germany. He lives in the "garden city" Haan (Mettmann district) and deals intensively with questions of contemporary history, works as a freelance journalist, and continues to follow the development of emergency medicine.

Gorgass is particularly known for his publications in the field of emergency medicine and rescue services.

Services

In the 1970s and 1980s, Bodo Gorgaß made significant contributions to improvements in emergency medicine and the medical equipment of the vehicles and helicopters used. He was committed to the qualification and social status of non-medical personnel in the rescue service - the " job profile of paramedics ", that is, professionalization in the rescue service against sometimes considerable resistance, including from rescue organizations as "Samaritan lay associations", professional fire brigades and cost bearers.

Childhood, youth, school

Bodo Gorgaß was born in Wiesbaden in 1940, experienced bunker and bombing nights in difficult times of war and, after the end of the war, attended elementary school in Königshofen, then the Dilthey-Gymnasium in Wiesbaden. In 1962 he graduated from high school.

Education

After two years of military service, Gorgass studied medicine at the University of Mainz. It was here that groundbreaking contacts were made with Rudolf Frey , a “Nestor” in anesthesia and one of the most important emergency physicians of the time, on whose initiative the emergency rescue service with helicopters and ambulances was reorganized. Gorgaß moved to the University of Hamburg in 1967 and took the state examination in 1969. On April 22, 1970, he was awarded the title and degree of Doctor of Medicine by the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hamburg.

Qualifications / assignments

Gorgaß completed his specialist training as anesthetist from 1970 to 1975 at the University of Ulm and at the Bundeswehr Hospital in Ulm . As an emergency doctor , he flew around 1,500 missions with the Ulm SAR rescue helicopter Bell UH-1D in the early 1970s in a 50/80 / sometimes 100 km operational radius around Ulm (the Munich rescue helicopter model test aimed for an operational radius of 50 km on). Gorgaß drove around 2,800 missions with the Ulm Bundeswehr ambulance. He performed various assignments as a medical officer in the 1970s in NATO maneuvers in northern Norway and several times in Turkey. In 1976 he worked as an anesthetist in the disaster operation of the Bundeswehr after a severe earthquake with over 5,000 victims in the province of Van, in eastern Turkey.

(Test) rescue center Ulm

Together with Friedrich Wilhelm Ahnefeld (the "Pope of Emergency Medicine"), Gorgaß built the Ulm (test) rescue center of the Bundeswehr Hospital and Ulm University, founded in 1971, where in 1971 the first Ulm ambulance and - after Munich - the second rescue helicopter station designed for continuous use was put into operation in the civil rescue service in Germany (system NAW, NEF, rescue helicopter with its own control center structure).

Gorgass - Ahnefeld 1985
Bodo Gorgaß and FW Ahnefeld, at an emergency medical congress in 1985

The (test) rescue center in Ulm was set up to check whether it could make sense for the Bundeswehr medical service to gain traumatological experience in dealing with the large number of accident victims. The RTH pilots should not only prove themselves on training flights but also on real operational flights. The (test) rescue center was expanded in such a way that it had an exemplary “training character” for the entire Bundeswehr and gave decisive impulses for the entire German rescue service. Gorgaß was head of the Ulm (test) rescue center from 1973 to 1979. In 1978/79 his collaboration resulted in the first ADAC publications on air rescue, "The Paramedic in the Air Rescue Service" and "The Doctor in the Air Rescue Service". After the emergency medical experience in Ulm was rated as extremely positive, further RTH locations of the Bundeswehr were put into service in the next few years: Hamburg, Koblenz, Würselen, Nuremberg, Rheine.

At that time, authorities, institutions and ministries increasingly understood the term "test" as an opportunity to contact the Ulm (test) rescue center with a wide variety of questions, for example ADAC, DRK, state ministries responsible for the rescue service (Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg: Helicopter landing pads at all hospitals), universities, standards committees, equipment manufacturers such as Hellige, Weinmann (Medumat, Combi-Bag, Ulm emergency case), Binz, Porsche (new cabin), etc. These attempts at innovation and very intensive cooperation continued for a long time when after obvious tests the prefix (test-) was dropped. The word formation "Gorgass-Ahnefeld" is still today a "quality mark", a synonym for modern emergency medicine.

Lectures

Gorgass gave more than 150 emergency medical lectures internationally.

Lectures in the USA were of particular importance in helicopter rescue - together with G. Frey and W. Stotz (Ulm); Gerhard Kugler and Ingo Karger, ADAC e. V. (Munich): " Rescue Helicopters in Primary and Secondary Missions ", Aerospace Medical Panel specialists meeting, Fort Rucker Alabama 1978. The experience of German air rescue received special attention there, in the American training center for helicopter pilots, and especially at this early stage.

Column editor

1997 to 2007 in the journal Emergency & Rescue Medicine , Springer Verlag, ISSN  1434-6222 .

"Advisory Organization" in the magazine NOTFALLMEDIZIN , Perimed Verlag Dr. med. Dietmar Straube, Erlangen, ISSN  0341-2903 .

Speaker

1978 to 1996 at the Medical Academy of the Bundeswehr, Munich.

Professional career in Ulm

Bodo Gorgaß was chief physician in the anesthesia and intensive care department at the St. Lukas Clinic in Solingen from 1979 to 2003 .

Professional profile policy "paramedic"

Bodo Gorgaß was honorary president of the professional association of paramedics BVRS ​​e. V., Lünen (from December 8, 1981 to July 29, 1986). He was involved in a tireless struggle for a "paramedic job description" at all political, occupational and institutional levels. The professional association drafted its own draft law in 1983 under the direction of Gorgass.

The “Emergency Medicine Advisory Board” was headed by FW Ahnefeld (Ulm), H.-D. Lippert (Blaustein) was responsible for legal issues and W. Weissauer (Freising) was in charge of the “Legal Issues in Emergency Services” department; the chairman of the rescue service foundation Björn Steiger eV, Siegfried Steiger (Winnenden) was at the head of the coordination advisory board .

Gorgaß was also a source of inspiration in the media, congress and information landscape at the time, for example with the Frankfurt Emergency Symposium of the BVRS ​​professional association on March 9, 1985 and INRETA (International Rescue Days) on March 22, 1986 in Dortmund.

Initiator of the Reisensburger Memorandum 1996

Seven years after the Paramedic Act (RettAssG, July 10, 1989) was passed, an interdisciplinary workshop was held on October 18, 1996 in the Science Center of Ulm University at Reisensburg Castle (Günzburg). The reason for this critical review was the unanimous view that the hopes of a fundamentally better qualification of the rescue service personnel with the passing of the RettAssG and the associated training and examination regulations (RettAssAPrV) had obviously not been fulfilled.

In the Reisensburger Memorandum of the Federal Association of Working Groups of Emergency Doctors in Germany ( BAND ) the causes for the existing deficiencies were set out and the resulting demands for a change were shown.

Publications (selection)

Gorgass is particularly known for his more than 70 publications in the field of emergency medicine and rescue services.

  • Emergency patients. The preclinical care of life-threatening patients and the necessary emergency equipment. In: DIA. The informed doctor, magazine for modern therapy and advanced training. 5th year, No. 9/77. IMP Verlag, Neu-Isenburg, 1977, ISSN  0342-2593 , pp. 90-102.
  • The emergency medical equipment for the care of acutely life-threatened patients. In: MED. MO. PHARM. (Medical monthly for pharmacists). 1st year, issue 7/78. Knowledge Verlags-Gesellschaft, Stuttgart 1978, ISSN  0342-9601 , pp. 210-215.
  • The helicopter rescue equipment as an integral part of the ground-based care of emergency patients. In: SOS Air Rescue Days. 27.-28. May 1978. Ed. SOS-Flugrettung e. V., Ina von Koenig. Self-published, Stuttgart / Filderstadt 1978, pp. 55–57.
  • Assisted emergency ventilation in clinics and rescue services. In: The emergency doctor. 5th year, issue 5-89. Georg Thieme Vlg, Stuttgart, 1989, ISSN  0177-2309 .
  • Contributions in Roderich Lüttgen: Handbook of rescue services. First aid, ambulance and ambulance services . Verlag vd Linnepe, Hagen. Loose-leaf edition, ISBN 3-921297-13-3 Publications:
    • with Rainer Dölp and FW Ahnefeld: The care of polytrauma patients at the scene of the accident and on the transport . Supplement 2/95, main section D VII., 5.1, pp. 1-3.
    • with FW Ahnefeld, M. Schorr, Peter Sefrin and E. Thiemens: Emergency doctor vehicle . Main section E 1.2, supplement 4/93, pp. 1–17.
    • Emergency doctor vehicle according to DIN 75 079 , main section E 1.2.1, pp. 1–2.

Publications (Ed. Communities / Excerpt)

Together with FW Ahnefeld, Gorgass published the first textbooks for the modernized rescue service from 1980.

Bodo Gorgaß, FW Ahnefeld: The paramedic, training and advanced training . Among employees by T. Graf-Baumann. With a contribution on legal aspects by H. Roth. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1980, ISBN 3-540-08731-1 .

Rolando Rossi, Bodo Gorgaß, FW Ahnefeld: The paramedic exam, questions, topics, tasks . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1987, ISBN 3-540-17248-3 .

Bodo Gorgaß, FW Ahnefeld: The paramedic and paramedic . With a contribution on legal issues by H.-D. Lippert, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1989, ISBN 3-540-50330-7 .

Bodo Gorgaß, FW Ahnefeld, Rolando Rossi, Hans-Dieter Lippert, Werner Krell, Georg Weber: The rescue service textbook. 8th, updated edition. Springer, Heidelberg 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-17248-2 .

Honors

Web links

Commons : Bodo Gorgaß  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bodo Gorgaß: The medical emergency equipment for the care of acutely life-threatened patients . In MED. MO. PHARM (medical monthly for pharmacists). Knowledge Verlag-Ges. Stuttgart 1978. Issue 7, pp. 210-215.
  2. ↑ Lothar Langner, Hans-Ulrich Suckert: Air rescue in Germany. W. Wolfsfellner MedizinVerlag, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-9802271-3-8 , p. 56 ( Success has many fathers. )
  3. ↑ "Overcoming self-pity and resignation" . A look back at three decades of emergency services. Dr. Gorgass in conversation. In: Ambulance Service. Journal of Preclinical Emergency Medicine . 06/2007. Stumpf + Kossendey, Edewecht 2007, ISSN  0178-2525 , pp. 582-586.
  4. ↑ "Insufficient legal certainty". Rescue service pioneer calls for improvements to the NotSanG. Dr. Interview with Gorgass. In: Ambulance Service. Journal of Preclinical Emergency Medicine. No. 3, 2020, pp. 216-221.
  5. ↑ Bodo Gorgaß: The staff in ambulance and rescue services. Historical comparisons, current problems, prospects. In: The paramedic. Issue 04, 1982. Stumpf & Kossendey, Edewecht 1982, pp. 146–157.
  6. ^ Nils Kessel: History of the ambulance service 1945–1990. From the “people of life savers” to the job description “paramedic”. Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Brussels / New York / Oxford 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-56910-8 .
  7. ↑ Michael Goerig, Jan-Peter Jantzen: Rudolf Frey - a biographical sketch on the occasion of his 100th birthday. In: The anesthesiologist. 8/2017. SpringerMedizin, Heidelberg 2017.
  8. ↑ Martin Frey: Possibilities and limits of air rescue of emergency patients. University of Mainz, Faculty of Medicine, dissertation, Mainz 1976.
  9. ↑ Jörn Fries: More than 50 years ago. Red Cross is also testing helicopters in Mainz. In: UM perspective. The magazine of the Mainz University Medical Center, March 2019.
  10. ↑ Bodo Gorgaß: About the physiological range of variation in human head and body hair . University of Hamburg, university thesis, faculty of medicine, Hamburg 1970.
  11. ↑ Bodo Gorgaß, H. Böhm: Experiences from the earthquake deployment of the Bundeswehr in Eastern Turkey. In: Emergency Medicine . 2 / 1978. Perimed Verlag, Erlangen 1978, ISSN 0341-2903, pp. 72-81.
  12. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Suckert, Marco Quinzio: Air rescue in Germany. Medicine, technology and humanity - at work for life. Edited by Deutsche Rettungsflugwacht eV (Filderstadt). W. Wolfsfellner MedizinVerlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-9802271-5-4 .
  13. ↑ Holger Scholl: Air rescue manual . Organization, deployment, tactics and technology. 2nd Edition. Stumpf + Kossendey, Edewecht 2018, ISBN 978-3-943174-93-9 , pp. 33-38.
  14. ^ Günther Frey, Lorenz Lampl, Karl Heinz Bock: The rescue helicopter - an integral part of a coordinated rescue system . Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Bundeswehr Hospital, Ulm. In: Airmed '85, Zurich. International Aeromedical Evacuation Congress. Swiss Air Rescue Service (REGA), Zurich 1987, p. 105.
  15. ↑ Benjamin Homberg: We fly so that you live. 15 years of organized air rescue. EFB Verlag, Hanau 1985, ISBN 3-88776-022-0 , esp .: (test) rescue center of the Bundeswehr Ulm, p. 58, literature about Bodo Gorgaß p. 157.
  16. ↑ Gerda Seepe: Federal Cross of Merit for Senior Field Physician Dr. Gorgass. In: Südwest Presse. Ulm, October 15, 1977.
  17. ^ ADAC eV: The paramedic in the air rescue service. Notes for additional training . Ed .: ADAC e. V., chief dept. Transport, Dept. of Transport Medicine. ADAC series road traffic, No. 22, Munich 1978.
  18. ^ ADAC eV: The doctor in the air rescue service. Leaflet on the technical requirements with information for the special briefing. 1st edition. Edited by ADAC e. V., Dept. Traffic Medicine Munich 09/1979. (Adaptation by Hans Burghart, Bodo Gorgaß).
  19. ↑ Holger Scholl: Air rescue manual . Organization, deployment, tactics and technology. 2nd Edition. Stumpf + Kossendey, Edewecht 2018, ISBN 978-3-943174-93-9 , p. 100.
  20. ↑ Gerhard Kugler: ADACOPTER-2 memories . W. Wolfsfellner MedizinVerlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-933266-62-0 , p. 143.
  21. ^ FW Ahnefeld, Wolfgang Dick, Bodo Gorgaß and others: Emergency case. In: Emergency Medicine. 7 ' /' 1981. Perimed Verlag, Erlangen 1981, ISSN  0341-2903 , p. 38.
  22. ↑ BINZ Foundation. Ten years in the service of emergency medicine. In: Emergency Medicine. 12/1997. Perimed Verlag, Erlangen 1997, ISSN  0341-2903 , p. 544.
  23. ^ FW Ahnefeld: First aid for emergency patients - progress and undesirable developments. In: 10 Years of the German Air Rescue Service. V., German headquarters for 10 years of air rescue. Series of publications by the German Air Rescue Service V., Volume 3. Filderstadt 1982. Compilation and editing by Peter Dürner, pp. 20-25.
  24. ↑ Bodo Gorgaß, Raimund Bardua: The rescue centers of the Bundeswehr. In: Handbook of rescue services, first aid, rescue service and ambulance transport. V. d. Linnepe Verlag, Hagen, supplementary delivery 3 / Sept. 1992, main section CI 6.3.1, ISBN 3-921297-13-3 , pp. 1-12.
  25. ↑ Holger Scholl: Air rescue manual . Organization, deployment, tactics and technology. 2nd Edition. Stumpf + Kossendey, Edewecht 2018, ISBN 978-3-943174-93-9 , pp. 33–36.
  26. ↑ Der Spiegel: EMERGENCY SERVICES . Knead somehow . Inadequately trained helpers sit in the ambulances of the rescue services. In many cases, they are as helpless as their patients . Hamburg April 26, 1982, pp. 83-87. (spiegel.de)
  27. ↑ Heinrich Klingshirn: The long way to a modern rescue service. Selected lectures 1980–2006. With an afterword by Peter Sefrin. W. Wolfsfellner MedizinVerlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-933266-84-2 .
  28. ↑ See also Bodo Gorgaß (Ulm), Hansjoachim Linde (Bonn): Investigations into transport and work space as well as medical equipment of a rescue helicopter (RTH). International Symposium Possibilities of Helicopters and Airplanes in Rescue Services / The Role of Helicopters and Airplanes in Search and Rescue. Edited by Rudolf Frey, Institute for Anaesthesiology at the University, Mainz, 3. – 5. October 1972. Collection of abstracts, p. 27.
  29. ^ AGARD: Operational Helicopter Aviation Medicine . Edited by Colonel SC Knapp, MC, Fort Rucker, Alabama. Ed .: AGARD ADVISORY GROUP FOR AEROSPACE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. CP-255. Neuilly Sur Seine, France December 1, 1978, p. 600 (English, nato.int, downloadable as pdf, approx. 310 MB). AGARD download
  30. ↑ Gerhard Kugler: ADACOPTER-2. Memories . W. Wolfsfellner MedizinVerlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-933266-62-0 , (Chapter Congress in Fort Rucker, Alabama, pp. 185-188).
  31. ↑ Südwest Presse. Ulm, October 15, 1977.
  32. ↑ It was about 30 intense years. In: Solinger Tagblatt , Sept. 23, 2014.
  33. ^ Rescue Service Journal . Member body of the professional association for the rescue service eV Hrsg. BVRS ​​e. V. 1st year, 01-1983 (September edition), self-published, Lünen 1983, ISSN  0178-2193 .
  34. ↑ Gerdelmann, Korbmann, Kutter (eds.): Ambulance and rescue services, supplementary manual of rescue regulations, fee regulations, jurisprudence and organizational provisions. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 1992, loose-leaf edition. Law on the Profession of Paramedic, Delivery 3/92, p. 1250 f. and the draft law on the profession of paramedic (1983), p. 1252.
  35. ↑ BAND band-online.de
  36. ↑ Federal Cross of Merit for Senior Field Physician Dr. Gorgass. In: Südwest Presse. Ulm October 15th 1977.
  37. ↑ Ambulance Service . S & K publishing house. Edewecht 7, 1996, p. 634.
  38. ^ Rudolf Frey Medal. Retrieved October 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gorgass, Bodo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden