Call for help from hospitals and doctors! Outdated service catalog for health insurance funds doctors and totally overloaded outpatient clinics. Many routine checks can be performed by general practitioners. A patient waits for an appointment with a low heart battery.
Some people get nervous when their cell phone is dead. For Mrs S. (27), it is the battery of her implanted defibrillator that only shows eleven percent. At the age of 16, the woman from Vienna collapsed in the bathroom – sudden cardiac death. A successful resuscitation followed.
Thanks to modern high-tech medicine, the now 27-year-old can lead an almost normal life, exercise moderately and work in a bakery. Mrs. S. suffers from a genetic defect. The small device in her chest works perfectly and delivers a shock in case of emergency. The defi had to intervene 16 times. It should be checked once or three times a year. In the summer, the battery showed 16 percent.
The next appointment would have been September 5 in a Viennese defibrillator/pacemaker ambulance. But the doctor on duty was sick. To date, she has not received an appointment to replace the generator. Now the battery has only eleven percent left…
Woman went into cardiac arrest again
“I was very scared,” reports the patient. The excitement caused her to go into cardiac arrest. The defi saved her life again. Mrs. S. Cardiologist prof.dr. Bonni Syeda, who runs a practice in Vienna-Floridsdorf, pulled out all the stops to help her patient. The 27-year-old is now under constant monitoring using telemedicine.
Unfortunately, this desperate begging of a bounty payer for an appointment is not an isolated case. At the same time, Dr. Bonni Syeda can operate the defibrillator, but it is missing from the Social Security catalog. This is why many modern treatments are only available to a few patients. “The health insurance ordinations could take over many services that are currently only possible in hospital outpatient clinics and thus relieve the burden on outpatient clinics,” said Dr. Erik Randall Huber, Vice President of the Vienna Medical Association. In addition, about 10 percent of money could be saved by treatments in practices.
There is another way: Vorarlberg leads the way
According to the head of cardiology at the Floridsdorf Clinic, Prim. prof. Dr. Georg Delle Karth, obsolete. Routine follow-up in the private sector would also make access much easier for pacemaker patients, for example for MRI examinations. In Vorarlberg, the pacemaker check in practices is already reimbursed by the health insurance. “There is no reason not to provide the same care to insured persons in the other federal states,” Huber adds.
Source: Krone
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