Cargando…
Stroke awareness among Dubai emergency medical service staff and impact of an educational intervention
BACKGROUND: Emergency medical services (EMS) play a vital role in expediting hospital arrival in stroke patients. The objective of our study was to assess the level of awareness regarding pre-hospital identification and management of acute stroke among EMS Staff in Dubai and to evaluate the impact o...
Autores principales: | , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
BioMed Central
2017
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5500952/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28683821 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2585-x |
_version_ | 1783248721147854848 |
---|---|
author | Shire, Fatima Kasim, Zahra Alrukn, Suhail Khan, Maria |
author_facet | Shire, Fatima Kasim, Zahra Alrukn, Suhail Khan, Maria |
author_sort | Shire, Fatima |
collection | PubMed |
description | BACKGROUND: Emergency medical services (EMS) play a vital role in expediting hospital arrival in stroke patients. The objective of our study was to assess the level of awareness regarding pre-hospital identification and management of acute stroke among EMS Staff in Dubai and to evaluate the impact of an educational lecture on their knowledge. METHODS: Ours was a cross-sectional study with a pre-test and post-test design. The intervention was an educational lecture, based on the updated guidelines in pre-hospital care of acute stroke. Participants were assessed before and after the intervention on various aspects of stroke care. Paired t test were used to compare the impact of the intervention. RESULTS: A total of 274 EMS workers participated in our study. The baseline knowledge of participants regarding stroke types was inadequate with only 68% correctly identifying these. 79% were able to name the cardinal stroke symptoms. Knowledge of stroke mimics was poor with only 6.6% identifying stroke mimics correctly. With respect to management, most participants were unable to correctly identify the points to illicit in the history of an acute stroke patient (25.2%) and also the steps in pre-hospital management (40%). All these aspects showed remarkable improvement post intervention. CONCLUSION: The baseline awareness of most aspects of acute stroke identification and management was poor in our EMS participants. Our educational lecture proved effective in improving this knowledge when tested immediately post intervention. However, there is a need to re-assess this at periodic intervals to identify the need for refresher courses on pre-hospital stroke management. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13104-017-2585-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-5500952 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2017 |
publisher | BioMed Central |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-55009522017-07-10 Stroke awareness among Dubai emergency medical service staff and impact of an educational intervention Shire, Fatima Kasim, Zahra Alrukn, Suhail Khan, Maria BMC Res Notes Research Article BACKGROUND: Emergency medical services (EMS) play a vital role in expediting hospital arrival in stroke patients. The objective of our study was to assess the level of awareness regarding pre-hospital identification and management of acute stroke among EMS Staff in Dubai and to evaluate the impact of an educational lecture on their knowledge. METHODS: Ours was a cross-sectional study with a pre-test and post-test design. The intervention was an educational lecture, based on the updated guidelines in pre-hospital care of acute stroke. Participants were assessed before and after the intervention on various aspects of stroke care. Paired t test were used to compare the impact of the intervention. RESULTS: A total of 274 EMS workers participated in our study. The baseline knowledge of participants regarding stroke types was inadequate with only 68% correctly identifying these. 79% were able to name the cardinal stroke symptoms. Knowledge of stroke mimics was poor with only 6.6% identifying stroke mimics correctly. With respect to management, most participants were unable to correctly identify the points to illicit in the history of an acute stroke patient (25.2%) and also the steps in pre-hospital management (40%). All these aspects showed remarkable improvement post intervention. CONCLUSION: The baseline awareness of most aspects of acute stroke identification and management was poor in our EMS participants. Our educational lecture proved effective in improving this knowledge when tested immediately post intervention. However, there is a need to re-assess this at periodic intervals to identify the need for refresher courses on pre-hospital stroke management. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13104-017-2585-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2017-07-06 /pmc/articles/PMC5500952/ /pubmed/28683821 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2585-x Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Shire, Fatima Kasim, Zahra Alrukn, Suhail Khan, Maria Stroke awareness among Dubai emergency medical service staff and impact of an educational intervention |
title | Stroke awareness among Dubai emergency medical service staff and impact of an educational intervention |
title_full | Stroke awareness among Dubai emergency medical service staff and impact of an educational intervention |
title_fullStr | Stroke awareness among Dubai emergency medical service staff and impact of an educational intervention |
title_full_unstemmed | Stroke awareness among Dubai emergency medical service staff and impact of an educational intervention |
title_short | Stroke awareness among Dubai emergency medical service staff and impact of an educational intervention |
title_sort | stroke awareness among dubai emergency medical service staff and impact of an educational intervention |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5500952/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28683821 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-017-2585-x |
work_keys_str_mv | AT shirefatima strokeawarenessamongdubaiemergencymedicalservicestaffandimpactofaneducationalintervention AT kasimzahra strokeawarenessamongdubaiemergencymedicalservicestaffandimpactofaneducationalintervention AT alruknsuhail strokeawarenessamongdubaiemergencymedicalservicestaffandimpactofaneducationalintervention AT khanmaria strokeawarenessamongdubaiemergencymedicalservicestaffandimpactofaneducationalintervention |