Lived practice now also recorded in writing: The Deutscher Eishockey-Bund and the Munich Clinic have now put their long-standing partnership on paper and agreed to sign a cooperation agreement. Since 2007, doctors from the cardiology department at the Munich Klinik Bogenhausen have been providing particularly close medical care for the women's national team and women's U18 national team DEB as team doctors. In the current Covid-19 pandemic, the doctors also supported the creation of a hygiene concept and a testing strategy for the start of the season. The women's Bundesliga begins on October 17th with appropriate safety measures. Chief physician Prof. Ellen Hoffmann and her team have been committed to this since 1999 DEB to provide advice.
This means that the Bogenhausen Clinic is officially a treatment center for internal medicine, sports medicine and cardiology issues DEB. Specifically, the cooperation means that Bogenhausen doctors under the direction of Prof. Hoffmann and senior physician PD Dr. Florian Straube is present at all national and international tournaments. The team doctors at the München Klinik Bogenhausen - Manuel Berger, Anna Schlichting, Bastian Schneider and Florian Straube - cover the entire spectrum of sports medicine, cardiology and internal medicine care - from preventive examinations to prevent sudden cardiac death to medical presence during training courses and tournaments Acute care of injuries and coordination of further treatment.
The women's national teams DEB As part of the cooperation, the Munich Clinic also provides operational support in returning to regular operations. Before the first training camp of the season for the entire women's national team in August, the doctors at the Munich Clinic Bogenhausen took the Covid swabs, which were also evaluated in the Munich Clinic's own laboratory.
DEB-Sports Director Stefan Schaidnagel: “We have had an extremely good and trusting cooperation with the Munich Clinic for a long time. It was both of our wishes to put this in writing. The Cardiology Clinic at the Munich Klinik Bogenhausen has been providing the women's national teams with outstanding quality advice on internal medicine, sports medicine, sports cardiology and cardiology issues since 2007 and supports the athletes with great commitment. We are very grateful to Prof. Ellen Hoffmann’s team for this and want to continue our collaboration at the proven level with a view to our team’s desired Olympic qualification.”
Prof. Ellen Hoffmann, Chief Physician at the Clinic for Cardiology and Internal Intensive Care Medicine at the Munich Clinic Bogenhausen and Schwabing: “The care of the DEB-Women is a real matter of the heart for us. Especially in a high-performance sport like ice hockey, reliable sports medical care is important in order to guarantee the athletes maximum safety on the ice. I'm very happy that the DEB and the Munich Clinic are now a strong team, not just on the boards, but also on paper.”