Casualty hospital
An accident hospital (also called accident hospital or accident clinic ) is a hospital where patients are cared for after accidents .
history
The first accident hospitals were built in the early 1890s by individual professional associations . The declared aim was to reduce costs through rehabilitation of the accident victims but also to identify simulators. The oldest accident hospital still in existence today is the "Bergmannsheil" in Bochum.
Range of services
The focus is on trauma surgery , intensive care and emergency medicine , but with the involvement of other specialist areas such as internal medicine or physiotherapy , right through to rehabilitation .
The most common treatments concern broken bones and burns , so that centers for severe burn injuries have often been established at such clinics . However, other specialist departments such as microsurgery and orthopedics are often attached to the hospitals in order to enable comprehensive care for the injured. Due to the profile of the accident clinics, they often have locations for rescue helicopters and emergency doctors.
organization
There is no legally prescribed qualification to use the designation accident hospital . However, accident hospitals in Germany and Austria are usually sponsored by accident insurance . The German employers' liability insurance association has over 13 employers liability insurance association clinics and accident treatment centers with more than 4,000 beds nationwide and the Austrian AUVA over seven accident hospitals with a total of 918 beds (including 54 intensive care beds). However, it can also be public or private organizations that operate such a specialized facility. In Germany, nine major accident hospitals are combined in the BG Kliniken group (official full name "BG Kliniken - Clinic Association of Statutory Accident Insurance GmbH").
List of accident hospitals (selection)
- Germany
- Berufsgenossenschaftliches Klinikum Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin
- Employer's Liability Insurance Association Bergmannsheil Bochum
- Professional association accident clinic Duisburg
- Accident Clinic Frankfurt am Main
- Employer's Liability Insurance Association Bergmannstrost Halle
- Employer's Liability Insurance Association Hamburg
- Employer's Liability Insurance Association Ludwigshafen
- Employer's liability insurance association accident clinic Murnau
- Professional association clinic Tübingen
- Austria (complete)
Movie
- The Accident Clinic - Doctors in constant stress. Documentation / report, 43 min, 2016, Germany. (Recordings in the accident hospital in Hamburg)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cf. Wolfgang Ayaß : Regulated self-regulation in the professional associations of the statutory accident insurance , in: Peter Collin u. a. (Ed.), Regulated Self-Regulation in the Early Intervention and Welfare State , Frankfurt am Main 2012, pp. 123–143; see. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 , III. Department: Expansion and differentiation of social policy since the beginning of the New Course (1890-1904), Volume 2, The revision of the accident insurance laws and the practice of accident insurance , edited by Wolfgang Ayaß, Darmstadt 2009.
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- ↑ a b Figures from AUVA ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Figures from the VBGK ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
