Jörg Teichfischer suffered a cardiac arrest at home in spring 2023. He was resuscitated by an emergency physician by means of defibrillator and cardiac massage for 55 minutes. Afterwards an ambulance took him to the Ortenau Klinikum Lahr, where resuscitative measures continued for almost 20 minutes.

Resuscitec GmbH is now certified according to the European Medical Device Regulation (MDR). The MDR replaces the Directive 93/42/EEC concerning medical devices (MDD) since 2017 with respect to modern demands on harmonized assessments within the EU.

“We are the team” was this year’s motto of the 54th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Internal Intensive and Emergency Medicine (DGIIN) and the Austrian Society of Internal and General Intensive and Emergency Medicine (ÖGIAIN) in Berlin.

Florian Wahl, Chairman of the Committee for Social Affairs, Health and Integration in the State Parliament of Baden-Württemberg (BW), visited together with an SPD delegation from Freiburg and BW, visited the University Emergency Center of the Medical Center – University of Freiburg and the CARL Academy in the Güterhalle.

They were not only introduced to the Freiburg Model Project for Life Saving in a joint presentation and a realistic simulation but were also actively and successfully involved in the simulation of a rescue operation.

Together with WEINMANN Emergency France, the CARL market launch in France was successfully launched at the Urgences congress in Paris. France is one of the leading European countries in extracorporeal resuscitation after cardiovascular arrest, both in-hospital and out-of-hospital.

When an emergency call is received at the integrated control center in Freiburg and a cardiac arrest, a secured resuscitation or a drowning accident is reported, the CARL-Mobil is alerted directly in addition to an ambulance and an emergency medical service vehicle. The concept of parallel alerting thus saves valuable minutes and shortens the time until the arrival of the treatment team.

Over 100 experts from the US and further different countries have discussed about the future of the cardiac arrest resuscitation in June at the Wolf Creek Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan. A team of the Resuscitec GmbH has been on-site.

In Europe, around 500,000 people suffer a sudden cardiac arrest every year. Outside of a hospital, only about 8% of those affected survive, and a high percentage of survivors suffer from neurological sequelae after resuscitation.

When an emergency call is received at the integrated control center in Freiburg and a cardiac arrest, a secured resuscitation or a drowning accident is reported, the CARL-Mobil is alerted directly in addition to an ambulance and an emergency medical service vehicle. The concept of parallel alerting thus saves valuable minutes and shortens the time until the arrival of the treatment team.

“We are the team” was this year’s motto of the 54th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Internal Intensive and Emergency Medicine (DGIIN) and the Austrian Society of Internal and General Intensive and Emergency Medicine (ÖGIAIN) in Berlin. This motto was also a topic at the Resuscitec GmbH lunch symposium, which was attended by 80 participants. Physicians from hospitals in Germany and Austria spoke on the topic “CARL. The future of interdisciplinary resuscitation?”.