[Handling posttraumatic stress disorder : Showing weakness means you lose].

Background: In prehospital medicine, psychological stress is common and part of the profession. On the one hand, this implies resilience; on the other hand, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can develop under the high psychological strain.

Objectives: The goal was to obtain an overview of the problem awareness among health care workers in prehospital medicine and identify possible networks for psychological trauma in Germany.