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How much ambulance personnel know about basic life support (BLS)? A hospital-based study from Eastern India

BACKGROUND: Basic life support (BLS) is an important component of emergency medical management. Ambulance personnel play a key role in resuscitation to save a life before reaching the hospital. We do not have any published data about the level of knowledge on BLS among the ambulance personnel. OBJEC...

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Autores principales: Hansda, Upendra, Sahoo, Sangeeta, Biswas, Sankalan, Mohanty, Chitta Ranjan, Barik, Sadananda, Giri, Prajna Paramita
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7842495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33532402
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_680_20
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author Hansda, Upendra
Sahoo, Sangeeta
Biswas, Sankalan
Mohanty, Chitta Ranjan
Barik, Sadananda
Giri, Prajna Paramita
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Sahoo, Sangeeta
Biswas, Sankalan
Mohanty, Chitta Ranjan
Barik, Sadananda
Giri, Prajna Paramita
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description BACKGROUND: Basic life support (BLS) is an important component of emergency medical management. Ambulance personnel play a key role in resuscitation to save a life before reaching the hospital. We do not have any published data about the level of knowledge on BLS among the ambulance personnel. OBJECTIVE: This study was done with the objective to assess the level of knowledge on BLS among the ambulance personnel. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was done in the emergency department (ED) of a tertiary care hospital. Universal sampling was done taking all the personnel of ambulances over the period of one month. Data were collected about the type of vehicle used for ambulance, the number of personnel in an ambulance, educational qualifications, and equipment present in their ambulances. The questionnaire to capture the level of knowledge were based on American Heart Association 2015 guidelines. RESULT: The total number of ambulance arrivals was 729 times. But data analysis was done from 104 ambulances excluding the repeat arrivals and those who did not give consent. There were 62 type-C and D ambulances, and 42 were type-B ambulances. Total of 210 personnel were there in 104 ambulances. Seventy-nine team leaders did not have any paramedical degrees. Fifty-eight team leaders were trained in BLS before working in an ambulance. In spite of this, 66 (63%) team leaders had poor performance (score of 0 to 4). CONCLUSION: The level of knowledge on BLS was poor in more than half of the ambulance personnel. They should be trained regularly on providing BLS.
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spelling pubmed-78424952021-02-01 How much ambulance personnel know about basic life support (BLS)? A hospital-based study from Eastern India Hansda, Upendra Sahoo, Sangeeta Biswas, Sankalan Mohanty, Chitta Ranjan Barik, Sadananda Giri, Prajna Paramita J Family Med Prim Care Original Article BACKGROUND: Basic life support (BLS) is an important component of emergency medical management. Ambulance personnel play a key role in resuscitation to save a life before reaching the hospital. We do not have any published data about the level of knowledge on BLS among the ambulance personnel. OBJECTIVE: This study was done with the objective to assess the level of knowledge on BLS among the ambulance personnel. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cross-sectional study was done in the emergency department (ED) of a tertiary care hospital. Universal sampling was done taking all the personnel of ambulances over the period of one month. Data were collected about the type of vehicle used for ambulance, the number of personnel in an ambulance, educational qualifications, and equipment present in their ambulances. The questionnaire to capture the level of knowledge were based on American Heart Association 2015 guidelines. RESULT: The total number of ambulance arrivals was 729 times. But data analysis was done from 104 ambulances excluding the repeat arrivals and those who did not give consent. There were 62 type-C and D ambulances, and 42 were type-B ambulances. Total of 210 personnel were there in 104 ambulances. Seventy-nine team leaders did not have any paramedical degrees. Fifty-eight team leaders were trained in BLS before working in an ambulance. In spite of this, 66 (63%) team leaders had poor performance (score of 0 to 4). CONCLUSION: The level of knowledge on BLS was poor in more than half of the ambulance personnel. They should be trained regularly on providing BLS. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-11-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7842495/ /pubmed/33532402 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_680_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Hansda, Upendra
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Mohanty, Chitta Ranjan
Barik, Sadananda
Giri, Prajna Paramita
How much ambulance personnel know about basic life support (BLS)? A hospital-based study from Eastern India
title How much ambulance personnel know about basic life support (BLS)? A hospital-based study from Eastern India
title_full How much ambulance personnel know about basic life support (BLS)? A hospital-based study from Eastern India
title_fullStr How much ambulance personnel know about basic life support (BLS)? A hospital-based study from Eastern India
title_full_unstemmed How much ambulance personnel know about basic life support (BLS)? A hospital-based study from Eastern India
title_short How much ambulance personnel know about basic life support (BLS)? A hospital-based study from Eastern India
title_sort how much ambulance personnel know about basic life support (bls)? a hospital-based study from eastern india
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7842495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33532402
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_680_20
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