Weinmann Emergency Medical Technology
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| legal form | GmbH + Co. KG |
| founding | 2013 |
| Seat | Hamburg, Germany |
| management | André Schulte, Philipp Schroeder, Marc Griefahn |
| Number of employees | approx. 245 |
| sales | € 42 million |
| Branch | Medical technology |
| Website | www.weinmann-emergency.de |
| Status: 2017 | |
WEINMANN Emergency Medical Technology GmbH + Co. KG is a medium-sized, family-owned , German medical technology company based in Hamburg . Weinmann Emergency emerged in 2013 from Weinmann Geräte für Medizin GmbH + Co. KG , founded in 1874, and has specialized in the manufacture of mobile systems for emergency, transport and disaster medicine.
Corporate structure
Weinmann Emergency Medical Technology GmbH + Co. KG is headquartered in the Hamburg district of Stellingen. The company's own center for production, logistics and service is located in Henstedt-Ulzburg in Schleswig-Holstein .
The company is represented worldwide with numerous representative offices, including locations in France, Spain, Russia, China, Singapore, the UAE and the USA. In addition, a network of sales partners covers global customer support in around 120 countries, which sells medical technology to rescue services, authorities, medical services for the armed forces and clinics.
The company's management consists of André Schulte, Philipp Schroeder and Marc Griefahn.
history
The Gottlieb Weinmann GmbH manufactory, founded by Gottlieb Weinmann in Ludwigshafen in 1874 , was a metal construction company until the 1960s with a focus on the manufacture of precision mechanical fittings, including pressure reducers for oxygen bottles and pressure gauges as a supplier to the automotive industry . Due to the acquisition of the medical technology division Weinmanns and the brand itself by the Lübeck Drägerwerke , Weinmann moved to Hamburg-Altona in 1956 - from now on with the focus on the sale of medical technology, protective work clothing and equipment.
In 1967 Weinmann broke away from Drägerwerke and Weinmann Geräte für Medizin GmbH + Co. KG was established with ten employees. The takeover of the company by Karl Feldhahn and the entry of Dr. Joachim Griefahn made Weinmann a pure family business again. After the "occupational safety" and "diving equipment" business areas were dismantled at the beginning of the 1970s and with the development of the fully automatic, time-controlled emergency ventilator MEDUMAT (a neologism from the Medulla oblongata and Automat breathing center ), the company changed to a pure medical technology manufacturer. From the first MEDUMAT a product family of emergency and transport ventilators arose, which is used worldwide today. 18% of the helicopters used in the German-speaking air rescue service have a MEDUMAT on board. In 2019, the MEDUVENT Standard, a ventilator, came onto the market that is not operated by pneumatics, but by a turbine.
The ULM CASE was created in 1977 in cooperation with the then chief physician of the Ulm Bundeswehr Hospital Friedrich Wilhelm Ahnefeld and the emergency physician Bodo Gorgaß . The portfolio was supplemented in 1975 by the ACCUVAC electric suction pump , which is still used today in a further developed version by rescue services and hospitals.
In addition to the ventilation product line , a second business area was created in 2004 with the MEDUCORE Easy, an automated external defibrillator : The MEDUCORE Standard for specialist staff was launched in 2012 . In combination with a MEDUMAT and an oxygen cylinder, the MEDUCORE Standard can be mounted on the LIFE-BASE portable system. This creates a portable unit consisting of ventilation, defibrillation and monitoring.
In parallel with the emergency medical product line “Emergency”, there was also the “Homecare” division, which focused on sleep monitoring and therapy as well as home ventilation. Weinmann started selling oxygen concentrators for long-term oxygen therapy in the 1980s . In 1991, Somnotron, a therapy device for sleep apnea syndrome and a nasal mask for sleep therapy, was introduced. The lines Somno (sleep), Venti (ventilation) and Joyce (masks) were created. In 2013, the company was split up, separating the “Emergency” and “Homecare” business areas. The newly founded company Weinmann Emergency Medical Technology GmbH + Co. KG exclusively focuses on the development, manufacture and marketing of emergency medical products. Weinmann Geräte für Medizin GmbH + Co. KG became 100 percent part of the Löwenstein Group in the same year.
Product lines and products
Weinmann produces and sells medical devices that are required in emergency rescue. These are ventilators, defibrillators and monitors, suction devices, devices for the oxygen supply on board, emergency cases and portable systems.
literature
- Caring for the patient is always teamwork. In: Homeland Security. 2015, p. 27. (excerpt)
- Enno Vattig: Preclinical airway management: Technical support for guideline-compliant airway management. In: Ambulance Service. 823, 2015, p. 23. (excerpt)
- Aurélie Renne: On the way to automated ventilation with CPR. (translated version). In: Secouriste Magazine. 2011, p. 48. (excerpt)
- Jürgen Luxem, Klaus Runggaldier, Harald Karutz, Frank Flake: Emergency Paramedic Today. 6th edition. Urban & Fischer, Munich 2016, p. 406.
- Ulrich Hintzenstern, Thomas Bein: Practice book ventilation. 5th edition. Urban & Fischer, Munich 2012, pp. 142–145.
- Markus Roessler, Clemens Kill: Non-invasive ventilation in preclinical emergency medicine. In: Emergency Medicine up2date. 5, 2010, pp. 297-312.
- Ulrich Hintzenstern, Thomas Bein: Practice book ventilation. 3. Edition. Urban & Fischer, Munich 2004, pp. 173–174.
- R. Huf, P. Sefrin: Intensive Care Transport. 1st edition. Journalverlag, Matrei in Osttirol 2000, p. 106.
Web links
- Emergency is a member of the German Healthcare Group
- German Healthcare Group reports on WEINMANN Emergency at the international rescue service competition "Rallye Rejviz"
- WEINMANN Emergency on YouTube
- Chinese plagiarist is awarded the negative Plagiarius prize for copying emergency and transport ventilators from WEINMANN Emergency
Individual evidence
- ↑ P. Hilbert-Carius, MF Struck, V. Hofer, J. Hinkelbein, T. Wurmb: Use of the helicopter respirator from the landing site to the destination in the hospital: Secondary analysis of the HOVER survey on ventilated emergency patients in air rescue . In: Emergency + Rescue Medicine . March 18, 2019, ISSN 1434-6222 , doi : 10.1007 / s10049-019-0579-z ( springer.com [accessed November 16, 2019]).
- ↑ WEINMANN Emergency: About us. June 2, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2016 .