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Training of a rescue paramedic to undertake rescue activities in difficult terrain
REICHOVÁ, Natálie
The title of this bachelor thesis is "Training of rescue paramedic to undertake rescue activities in difficult terrain". The thesis is split into two parts - a literature review and a research. Literature review focuses on particular bodies of the Integrated Rescue System that can provide rescue operations in hard to access terrain. These bodies are: Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic, Mountain Rescue Service of the Slovak Republic, Height Rescue Department of the Medical Rescue Service of the South Bohemian Region and Mountain Rescue Service of the Czech Republic. A short overview is provided for each body, with description of the specialized preparation - theoretical as well as practical and availability and quality of equipment. The research focuses on a comparison of physical, psychological and theoretical preparedness of representatives from each emergency service body. The research also analyses the technical and safety & rescue equipment of each body. As a methodology we used a qualitative research conducting semi-structured interviews with three mountain rescue paramedics from Mountain Rescue Service of the Slovak Republic, with three members of the Height Rescue Department of the Medical Rescue Service of the South Bohemian Region, who are also flight paramedics, with three firefighters from the Fire Rescue Service of the Czech Republic, and one mountain rescue paramedic from the Mountain Rescue Service of the Czech Republic. The aim of the research is to compare physical preparadness and the level of its difficulty, theoretical and practical preparedness, level of psychological difficulty, the availability of psychological intervention, the availability and quality of equipment and different types and kinds of rescue activities in each of the interviewed bodies. The findings indicate that the biggest differences across the emergency services bodies interviewed are in the level of physical preparedness and difficulty. Firefighters and mountain rescue paramedics in both countries have to take part in physical preparation and are also regularly tested in it. Whereas flight paramedics don't have to take part in any physical preparation or any regular testing as part of their employment
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