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Awareness of basic life support among medical, dental, nursing students and doctors
To study the awareness of Basic Life Support (BLS) among students, doctors and nurses of medical, dental, homeopathy and nursing colleges. A cross-sectional study was conducted by assessing responses to 20 selected basic questions regarding BLS among students, doctors and nurses of medical, dental,...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900734/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20661349 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.63650 |
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author | Chandrasekaran, Shanta Kumar, Sathish Bhat, Shamim Ahamed Saravanakumar, Shabbir, P Mohammed Chandrasekaran, VP |
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description | To study the awareness of Basic Life Support (BLS) among students, doctors and nurses of medical, dental, homeopathy and nursing colleges. A cross-sectional study was conducted by assessing responses to 20 selected basic questions regarding BLS among students, doctors and nurses of medical, dental, homeopathy and nursing colleges. After excluding the incomplete response forms the data was analysed on 1,054 responders. The results were analysed using an answer key prepared with the use of the Advanced Cardiac Life Support manual. Out of 1,054 responders 345 were medical students, 75 were medical interns, 19 were dental students, 59 were dental interns, 105 were homeopathy interns, 319 were nursing students, 72 were doctors, 29 were dentists, 25 were nursing faculty and six were homeopathy doctors. No one among them had complete knowledge of BLS. Only two out of 1054 (0.19%) had secured 80 – 89% marks, 10 out of 1054 (0.95%) had secured 70 – 79% marks, 40 of 1054 (4.08%) had secured 60 – 69% marks and 105 of 1054 (9.96%) had secured 50 – 59% marks. A majority of them, that is, 894 (84.82%) had secured less than 50% marks. Awareness of BLS among students, doctors and nurses of medical, dental, homeopathy and nursing colleges is very poor. |
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spelling | pubmed-29007342010-07-26 Awareness of basic life support among medical, dental, nursing students and doctors Chandrasekaran, Shanta Kumar, Sathish Bhat, Shamim Ahamed Saravanakumar, Shabbir, P Mohammed Chandrasekaran, VP Indian J Anaesth Clinical Investigation To study the awareness of Basic Life Support (BLS) among students, doctors and nurses of medical, dental, homeopathy and nursing colleges. A cross-sectional study was conducted by assessing responses to 20 selected basic questions regarding BLS among students, doctors and nurses of medical, dental, homeopathy and nursing colleges. After excluding the incomplete response forms the data was analysed on 1,054 responders. The results were analysed using an answer key prepared with the use of the Advanced Cardiac Life Support manual. Out of 1,054 responders 345 were medical students, 75 were medical interns, 19 were dental students, 59 were dental interns, 105 were homeopathy interns, 319 were nursing students, 72 were doctors, 29 were dentists, 25 were nursing faculty and six were homeopathy doctors. No one among them had complete knowledge of BLS. Only two out of 1054 (0.19%) had secured 80 – 89% marks, 10 out of 1054 (0.95%) had secured 70 – 79% marks, 40 of 1054 (4.08%) had secured 60 – 69% marks and 105 of 1054 (9.96%) had secured 50 – 59% marks. A majority of them, that is, 894 (84.82%) had secured less than 50% marks. Awareness of BLS among students, doctors and nurses of medical, dental, homeopathy and nursing colleges is very poor. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2900734/ /pubmed/20661349 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.63650 Text en © Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Clinical Investigation Chandrasekaran, Shanta Kumar, Sathish Bhat, Shamim Ahamed Saravanakumar, Shabbir, P Mohammed Chandrasekaran, VP Awareness of basic life support among medical, dental, nursing students and doctors |
title | Awareness of basic life support among medical, dental, nursing students and doctors |
title_full | Awareness of basic life support among medical, dental, nursing students and doctors |
title_fullStr | Awareness of basic life support among medical, dental, nursing students and doctors |
title_full_unstemmed | Awareness of basic life support among medical, dental, nursing students and doctors |
title_short | Awareness of basic life support among medical, dental, nursing students and doctors |
title_sort | awareness of basic life support among medical, dental, nursing students and doctors |
topic | Clinical Investigation |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2900734/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20661349 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.63650 |
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