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Medical Services during Disasters at Frankfurt Airport

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2017

Wolfgang Fremder
Affiliation:
Airport Clinic of the Frankfurt Airport, Frankfurt am Main AG, West Germany

Extract

The airport clinic at Flughafen Frankfurt Main AG (FAG) is a 24 hour manned casualty ward. It employs three surgeons and approximately 40 paramedics. This clinic is supported by external physicians during the night and weekends that guarantees, on a 24 hour basis, a minimum of one physician and four paramedics available for immediate response.

In addition, the airport operator provides an industrial medical service which employs (during normal working hours) six physicians and approximately 10 paramedics.

Finally, there is support from the clinic of the US Rhein Main Air Base, at the military part of the airport, which employs approximately 12 physicians and flight surgeons, 10 dentists and another 100 paramedics. The emergency staff of the clinic of the US Rhein Main Air Base is also manned on a 24 hour basis. The airport clinic and the clinic of the US Forces and their respective fire departments collaborate together in cases of emergency or disaster.

For immediate medical care the airport clinic has available an emergency surgery unit, one emergency surgery ambulance vehicle, and three ambulances with first-aid equipment. In addition, the airport clinic provides two trucks with medical equipment for 100 severely injured persons and two inflatable air-conditioned emergency tents.

Comparable medical equipment is also available at the clinic of the US Rhein Main Air Base, according to US military standards. The US Rhein Main Air Base also operates three DC-9 Nightingale medical aircraft which are responsible for all types of emergencies in the area of the US Forces in Europe.

Type
Section Two—Organization and Preparation
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1985

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