Croce Verde Lugano, Switzerland
Team members: Giorgio De Ambroggi, Paramedic; Enrico Citriniti, Specialist Nurse; Fabio Volonte, Anesthesiologist
“We decided to do this experience because recently we have been dealing with high fidelity simulations and we want to implement our knowledge. Regardless of the result of the tournament we expect to enrich our knowledge in the simulated scenarios.”
Austrian Red Cross, Austria
Team members: Michael Eichlseder, Paramedic/Medical Student; Bernhard Kowalski, Paramedic/Medical Student; Mike König, Paramedic/Medical Student
“We are looking forward to challenging scenarios and professional feedback. The competition provides us a great opportunity to grow as a team, improve our medical skills and ultimately provide even better care to the most important aspect of emergency medicine: the patients that we treat every day”.
Germany Johanniter Unfall Hilfe, Germany
Team members: Christopher Jonck, Paramedic; Matthias Riemann, Emergency Nurse and Paramedic; Benjamin Hummel, Paramedic
“We are a young team of dedicated paramedics who see critical thinking, evidence-based action and self-reflection as the foundation of their work. We constantly strive to improve our performance and to develop strategies to save our patients in their time of need. Competing with 15 teams from all over Europe is an absolute honor for us. We have the greatest respect for the other teams and look forward to make new friends and share our experience with each other.”
École Supérieure d’Ambulancier
Team members: Fanny, Olivier, Ludovic and Cédric (back-up)
“We are four students on the third year at the ES-ASUR Paramedic School in Lausanne (Switzerland). Determined to take up the challenge, we train hard every time we can, in between our courses at school, exams and shifts. We are very excited to share experiences and practices with teams from other countries “
Servizio Autoambulanza Mendrisiotto
Team members: Sarah Bassanini, Paramedic; Francesco Bellagamba, Paramedic; Stefano Latini, Paramedic
“We are very excited to be involved in this EMS Championship. It will be a great opportunity to meet lots of people from all over Europe and share skills with prehospital and health practitioners. It will also be a personal and professional growth experience and we look forward to joining the other teams in a beautiful spring in Madrid”
Sygehuset Innlandet
Team members: Anna Opperud Nicolaisen, Paramedic; Øystein Seljenes, Paramedic; Merethe Haugsbakken-Braasted, Paramedic/nurse
“Team Hæljelaget from Sykehuset Innlandet, Norway, work in and are regional champions 2018 in an area the size of Denmark. We hope to learn from the other teams and bring new knowledge back home to our colleagues in Norway. We are excited!”
GGD Brabant-Zuidoost Ambulance Service
Team members: Hans de Koot (back-up), Ambulance Nurse; Martjin Gerritsen, Ambulance Driver; Mariola Castelijns, Nurse Practitioner Acute Care; Jeroen van den Berg, Physician Assistant Emergency Medicine.
“Every day we try to excel at our job to provide the very best care for our patients. We are looking forward to showing you all in this competition. So, come and see us at the EMS Championship! Nos vemos en Madrid!”
SAMUR-Protección Civil
Team members: Carlos; Alicia; Jorge
“We are glad and eager to have the opportunity to participate in the EMS 2019 Congress Championship. Sharing knowledge and management of critical care with international teams is a great experience for us to improve our daily work. We consider it the perfect chance to represent our emergency medical service, demonstrating how we manage our patients”
Oslo University Hospital HF
Team members: Ole Petter Gjerdrum, Paramedic; Joakim Rix, Paramedic; Magnus Wethal, Paramedic
“Our motivation for participating is to represent Norway in the competition, as well as to
develop ourselves academically and get to know colleagues from all over the world.”
Ambulance Amsterdam
Team members: Jeroen van Rijn, Ambulance Driver; Marlies Smit, Ambulance Nurse; Marianne van der Meulen, Ambulance Nurse
“Our team is happy to take on the challenge against the other teams from Europe. In addition, we hope to learn from the congress and the other participating teams and would like to show how our team performs.”
King Abdulaziz University hospital
Team members: Yaseen (back-up), Fahad, Khaled, Mohammed
“We are small EMS unit with a big dream to be one of the best. We want to learn and share experience. We are very excited to be in the competition”
Sistema d’Emergències Mèdiques
Team members: Esther García (Paramedic, TES), Marta Huerta (Nurse) and Toni Prieto (Doctor).
“We expect to share a good time with our colleagues from all over the world and learn about others emergency teams. We think that we have a good opportunity to share how different emergency systems work to deal with emergency situations or how the emergency teams are organized. It will be a pleasure being in Madrid with all of you!”
Hong Kong Fire Services Department
Team Members: Ringo Wong, Paramedic; Kwan-yu Tai, Paramedic; Sam Ng, Paramedic
“We are very excited to participate in the competition and to learn from other teams which are from all over the world. We look forward to seeing you all in Madrid!”
EMS Copenhagen
Team members: Christian Hartvig, Rasmus Hesselfeldt, Michael Møller
”We are motivated by winning the championship and have fun at the same time. We are pursuing the small goals of getting better all the time by improving our teamwork and performance. It’s a good goal to get a little bit better all the time and hopefully we’ll win the competition in the end”.
South East Coast Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust
Team members: Shivani Kumar, Paramedic/ Nick Trestrail, Paramedic/ Kieren Pugh, Paramedic
“We are Team SECAmb. We are looking forward to taking part in the EMS Team Championship, meeting pre-hospital clinicians from around the world, both learning from and sharing our experiences. Taking the knowledge learned back to our Trust to improve patient care and outcomes.”
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust
Team members: Rhys Griffiths, Jake Harper, Anna Cannon, Leah Williams (back-up), all paramedics
“The team from the East Midlands are looking forward to defending the title of European EMS champions, they are excited to develop their practice and meet other teams from around the world”
