Objectives: Being an ambulance man is hard phisically and mentally as well. The calls are stressful, mostly mainly when they're about children or gynecologycal matters. The aim of our research is to explore the attitude and overall knowledge of ambulance workers of Nyugat Dunántúl region regarding tocological matters and also measure the amount of knowledge in the field.

Methods: The base of the descriptive quantitative research was an arbitrarily sample consisting of EMTs, paramedics, ambulance doctors in the Győr-Moson-Sopron, Vas and Zala counties. (n=135) Exclusion criteria: Lack of calls to ongoing child-birth, professional obstrectical knowledge, deficiently filled out questionnaire.The data gathering was done from February-April 2020, with a questionnaire created for this purpose.The main question groups were about socio-demographic data, different kinds of measurements of stress regarding emergency services, statements about prehospital child-birth, treatment of newborns and knowledge of reanimation of adults.The descriptive statistics and calculations were done with SPSS 25.0 and Excel 2016 by doing two-sample t-tests, Fischer-exact tests and χ2 test (p≤0. 05).

Results: 5% (n=79) of the participants agreed that calls about childbirth, while 88. 2 % (n=119) also agreed that reanimation of newborns is the most stressful task that they can imagine in their job. The knowledge of adult reanimation (average points = 4.73±1.538) are significantly higher (p<0.001) than the ones about threating newborns (average points = 3. 13±1.941). There is a relation between the type of the ambulance service and the knowledge of new born treatment, as the people working in advanced level ambulance services (p=0.001). Achieved significantly better results, than the staff of a basic level ambulance service (p=0.003).

Conclusions: Overall it can be stated that this matter requires special attention and additional trainings need to be provided in the future.