Introduction: The task of emergency medical aid providers is to monitor the situation, analyze, plan and decide on interventions that are important to preserve life. In their work, they face care in the terminal phase of an incurable disease, for which there is a lack of training, as well as psychological and physical factors that can have consequences on their professional and private lives. Purpose: The purpose of the thesis is to define the terminal phase of the disease in the field and emergency medical aid, and to investigate or review how the providers of emergency medical aid deal with the terminal phase of the patient's disease in the field and during transport. Methods: A descriptive method of work is used in the thesis. A review of the professional and scientific literature in the researched field was carried out. The literature review is performed in various databases Google Scholar, CINAHL Ultimate and Pub med. Inclusion criteria were: accessibility of the entire text, year of publication from 2010, consistency of content with respect to the topic of the thesis, relevance of keywords, professional and original scientific articles, relevant contributions and excerpts from professional literature. Results: The role of emergency medical care providers is to care for patients at risk, for which they need constant professional training. They often state that they have insufficient knowledge, lack of experience, systemic barriers and mental barriers in their work in the case of certain rarer situations, including facing the terminal phase of the disease. The hardships are so serious that there are consequences such as sleep disturbances and fatigue, which affect the ability to work, health, well-being and safety. In addition, there are also outbursts of anger, resentment, frustration, betrayal and rejection, and on a physical level, headaches, digestive problems and the like. Stress also often occurs, which they have to manage with various techniques. Discussion and conclusion: The primary role of emergency medical care providers is to care for acute patient conditions and transport. They have to adapt their work according to a pre-prepared plan within the framework of the cooperation of various health professional groups, so they are expected to have adequate education and training in the field of care to deal with patients in the terminal phase of an incurable disease. There is a lot of research on the topic of palliative care and the terminal phase of an incurable disease and the role of emergency medical care, but there is a lack of it in our environment, which is a good starting point for research.
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