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The level of knowledge and use of self-defense paramedic during attack
PANOUŠEK, Martin
The modern day brings with it many risks for paramedics in the form of higher agression from the side of people they interact with. More and more often, members of rescue teams are encountering verbal and physical abuse from the side of patients and their relatives. The frequence of treating people intoxicated with alcohol or other narcotics, which makes them dangerous for the paramedics, is rising. Therefore, situations for which the paramedics weren't trained or sufficiently geared are occuring. In the theoretical part of this paper i am talking about problems with agression in a pre-hospital care, mainly with how it manifests, the reason why and the types of it. Because the verbal abuse was voted by participants as the most common, i decided to devote a part of the theoretical paper to the ways how to properly communicate with an agressive person. Then i include a few marginal information about self-defence and rules for tactful self-defence. Because paramedics are completely unequipped for physical attack, i talk about this problem from the technical, physical and legal side. I am gathering data for the research part of the paper from paramedics through series of half-structured interviews. I study how they act in times of crisis such as when they are attacked. I also mention what level of knowledge of self-defence there paramedics possess and if they use some techniques from it. The result of my paper is pointing out that the paramedics aren't at a level of self-defence when they can effectively protect themselves from harm during an actual physical attack. A police department of Czech Republic is absolutely necessary for ZSS squads for dealing with these situations. The research showed, that the training in self-defence and cooperation with PČR ideally once per year would be greatly appreciated by most of the paramedics, and from my opinion it would be great way to deal with situations that can occur in the future.
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