To understand details of the management of burned patients in Lower Austria, I would like to give you some facts. This county has an area of 20.000 square kilometers and houses 1.5 Mio people. In comparison to middle Europe, it is a rather sparsely populated area.
People tend to live near the main routes.
The distances between hospitals are about 30 km. There are 3 helicopters in the area for patient transportation, which operate from sunrise to sunset. 27 emergency physicians are the basis of the management concept. The logistics work is done by Bruno Hersche and his Risk Management Company. Concerning fire disasters we have decided to activate our plan when there are 10 or more burn causalities.