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Current state of knowledge of basic life support in health professionals of the largest city in Pakistan: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Basic Life Support (BLS) is the recognition of sudden cardiac arrest and activation of the emergency response system, followed by resuscitation, and rapid defibrillation. According to WHO, Pakistan has one of the highest mortality rates from accidental deaths therefore assessment and com...
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author | Irfan, Babar Zahid, Ibrahim Khan, Muhammad Sharjeel Khan, Omar Abdul Aziz Zaidi, Shayan Awan, Safia Bilal, Sobia Irfan, Omar |
author_facet | Irfan, Babar Zahid, Ibrahim Khan, Muhammad Sharjeel Khan, Omar Abdul Aziz Zaidi, Shayan Awan, Safia Bilal, Sobia Irfan, Omar |
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description | BACKGROUND: Basic Life Support (BLS) is the recognition of sudden cardiac arrest and activation of the emergency response system, followed by resuscitation, and rapid defibrillation. According to WHO, Pakistan has one of the highest mortality rates from accidental deaths therefore assessment and comparison of BLS knowledge in health professionals is crucial. We thereby aim to assess and compare the knowledge of BLS in doctors, dentists and nurses. METHODS: A multi-centric cross-sectional survey was conducted in Karachi at different institutions belonging to the private as well as government sector from January to March 2018. We used a structured questionnaire which was adapted from pretested questionnaires that have been used previously in similar studies. Descriptive statistics were analyzed using SPSS v22.0, where adequate knowledge was taken as a score of at least 50%. P < 0.05 was considered as significant. Logistic regression was used to identify the factors affecting the knowledge regarding BLS in health care professionals. RESULTS: The responders consisted of 140 doctors, nurses and dentists each. Only one individual (dentist) received a full score of 100%. In total, 58.3% of the population had inadequate knowledge. Average scores of doctors, dentists and nurses were 53.5, 43.3 and 38.4% respectively. Doctors, participants with prior training in BLS and those with 6 to 10 years after graduation were found to be a significant predictor of adequate knowledge, on multivariate analysis. CONCLUSION: Even though knowledge of BLS in doctors is better than that of dentists and nurses, overall knowledge of health care professionals is extremely poor. Present study highlights the need for a structured training of BLS for health care workers. |
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spelling | pubmed-68688382019-12-12 Current state of knowledge of basic life support in health professionals of the largest city in Pakistan: a cross-sectional study Irfan, Babar Zahid, Ibrahim Khan, Muhammad Sharjeel Khan, Omar Abdul Aziz Zaidi, Shayan Awan, Safia Bilal, Sobia Irfan, Omar BMC Health Serv Res Research Article BACKGROUND: Basic Life Support (BLS) is the recognition of sudden cardiac arrest and activation of the emergency response system, followed by resuscitation, and rapid defibrillation. According to WHO, Pakistan has one of the highest mortality rates from accidental deaths therefore assessment and comparison of BLS knowledge in health professionals is crucial. We thereby aim to assess and compare the knowledge of BLS in doctors, dentists and nurses. METHODS: A multi-centric cross-sectional survey was conducted in Karachi at different institutions belonging to the private as well as government sector from January to March 2018. We used a structured questionnaire which was adapted from pretested questionnaires that have been used previously in similar studies. Descriptive statistics were analyzed using SPSS v22.0, where adequate knowledge was taken as a score of at least 50%. P < 0.05 was considered as significant. Logistic regression was used to identify the factors affecting the knowledge regarding BLS in health care professionals. RESULTS: The responders consisted of 140 doctors, nurses and dentists each. Only one individual (dentist) received a full score of 100%. In total, 58.3% of the population had inadequate knowledge. Average scores of doctors, dentists and nurses were 53.5, 43.3 and 38.4% respectively. Doctors, participants with prior training in BLS and those with 6 to 10 years after graduation were found to be a significant predictor of adequate knowledge, on multivariate analysis. CONCLUSION: Even though knowledge of BLS in doctors is better than that of dentists and nurses, overall knowledge of health care professionals is extremely poor. Present study highlights the need for a structured training of BLS for health care workers. BioMed Central 2019-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC6868838/ /pubmed/31752855 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4676-y Text en © The Author(s). 2019 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 Irfan, Babar Zahid, Ibrahim Khan, Muhammad Sharjeel Khan, Omar Abdul Aziz Zaidi, Shayan Awan, Safia Bilal, Sobia Irfan, Omar Current state of knowledge of basic life support in health professionals of the largest city in Pakistan: a cross-sectional study |
title | Current state of knowledge of basic life support in health professionals of the largest city in Pakistan: a cross-sectional study |
title_full | Current state of knowledge of basic life support in health professionals of the largest city in Pakistan: a cross-sectional study |
title_fullStr | Current state of knowledge of basic life support in health professionals of the largest city in Pakistan: a cross-sectional study |
title_full_unstemmed | Current state of knowledge of basic life support in health professionals of the largest city in Pakistan: a cross-sectional study |
title_short | Current state of knowledge of basic life support in health professionals of the largest city in Pakistan: a cross-sectional study |
title_sort | current state of knowledge of basic life support in health professionals of the largest city in pakistan: a cross-sectional study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6868838/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31752855 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4676-y |
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