Care for suicidal patients provided by the health rescuers.

Drives to persons demonstrating a suicidal intent are demanding especially for the mental condition of interveners, due to its emotional intensity as well as the awareness of responsibility for a human life that may be rescued, if a suitable intervention procedure is chosen, but also easily lost, if the intervener fails in the suicide{\crq}s eyes. A well chosen intervention may revert the suicide{\crq}s wish to die. For that reason, the rescue workers should be given the best possible preparation before this situation occurs in reality. The objective of my thesis was to find out whether the participating paramedics in the role of respondents proceed according to the valid standards (the type plan) or not, and if they do not, to what extent their methods, to which adhere in their practice, differ from the recommended standards. To obtain the necessary data, I used an anonymous questionnaire, aimed at the staff of the Emergency Medical Service of the Region of South Bohemia, working in the position of a paramedic. The questions were aimed at the possibility to obtain expert information concerning the subject in question, the frequency of drives to persons demonstrating a suicidal intent, composition and work of the intervention team on the spot of the event, and comparing the opinions of the procedure in the course of the intervention with standards recommended. The first hypothesis established, which was supposed to confirm that paramedics know the standards (the type plan or any other plan) of work with persons demonstrating a suicidal intent, was not confirmed because most of the respondents answered that they did not know these standards. The second hypothesis was partly confirmed. To improve professional knowledge concerning work with persons demonstrating a suicidal intent I propose a training course for paramedics, led by experts