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The Knowledge and Awareness of Medical Emergencies and Management among Dental Students

BACKGROUND: Every dentist should anticipate being confronted with a medical emergency (ME), and one should always be ready to treat the most catastrophic ones. AIM: This study aimed to assess the knowledge of dental clinical students of Tamil Nadu in the ME understanding and management to create awa...

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Autores principales: Mohideen, Khadijah, Thayumanavan, Balakrishnan, Krithika, C., Nazia, Rafique, Murali, Balasubramaniam, Pravda, C., Arshadha, Maimoon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8375915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34447193
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpbs.JPBS_559_20
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author Mohideen, Khadijah
Thayumanavan, Balakrishnan
Krithika, C.
Nazia, Rafique
Murali, Balasubramaniam
Pravda, C.
Arshadha, Maimoon
author_facet Mohideen, Khadijah
Thayumanavan, Balakrishnan
Krithika, C.
Nazia, Rafique
Murali, Balasubramaniam
Pravda, C.
Arshadha, Maimoon
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description BACKGROUND: Every dentist should anticipate being confronted with a medical emergency (ME), and one should always be ready to treat the most catastrophic ones. AIM: This study aimed to assess the knowledge of dental clinical students of Tamil Nadu in the ME understanding and management to create awareness toward patient care. METHODOLOGY: A total of 768 dental students, including final-year students and residents from different colleges, took part in the questionnaire-based cross-sectional study. The selection of study participants was by the convenience sampling method. The questionnaire contained thirty closed multiple-choice questions to assess their knowledge of MEs. Microsoft Office Excel software was used for compiling the answers. The descriptive analysis of the data is exhibited in graphs. RESULTS: The majority of participants were mindful of the vital signs; only 55% of the participants know the importance of checking their respiration rate. The knowledge of identifying MEs such as anaphylaxis was 91%, and only 27%–37% of the respondents knew to identify angina, transient ischemia, and lidocaine toxicity. Approximately 15%–40% of the respondents only knew the management of angina, cardiac arrest, hyperventilation, respiratory obstruction, and seizure. Only 10% agreed that the best office emergency kit should be prepared by themselves. Roughly 78% of the respondents were conscious of the patient's referral whenever necessary and aware of state dental acts. CONCLUSION: This study reflects a significant need for training in executing ME among dental students who are to transmute into future dental professionals.
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spelling pubmed-83759152021-08-25 The Knowledge and Awareness of Medical Emergencies and Management among Dental Students Mohideen, Khadijah Thayumanavan, Balakrishnan Krithika, C. Nazia, Rafique Murali, Balasubramaniam Pravda, C. Arshadha, Maimoon J Pharm Bioallied Sci Original Article BACKGROUND: Every dentist should anticipate being confronted with a medical emergency (ME), and one should always be ready to treat the most catastrophic ones. AIM: This study aimed to assess the knowledge of dental clinical students of Tamil Nadu in the ME understanding and management to create awareness toward patient care. METHODOLOGY: A total of 768 dental students, including final-year students and residents from different colleges, took part in the questionnaire-based cross-sectional study. The selection of study participants was by the convenience sampling method. The questionnaire contained thirty closed multiple-choice questions to assess their knowledge of MEs. Microsoft Office Excel software was used for compiling the answers. The descriptive analysis of the data is exhibited in graphs. RESULTS: The majority of participants were mindful of the vital signs; only 55% of the participants know the importance of checking their respiration rate. The knowledge of identifying MEs such as anaphylaxis was 91%, and only 27%–37% of the respondents knew to identify angina, transient ischemia, and lidocaine toxicity. Approximately 15%–40% of the respondents only knew the management of angina, cardiac arrest, hyperventilation, respiratory obstruction, and seizure. Only 10% agreed that the best office emergency kit should be prepared by themselves. Roughly 78% of the respondents were conscious of the patient's referral whenever necessary and aware of state dental acts. CONCLUSION: This study reflects a significant need for training in executing ME among dental students who are to transmute into future dental professionals. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-06 2021-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8375915/ /pubmed/34447193 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpbs.JPBS_559_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Journal of Pharmacy and Bioallied Sciences https://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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Mohideen, Khadijah
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Nazia, Rafique
Murali, Balasubramaniam
Pravda, C.
Arshadha, Maimoon
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jpbs.JPBS_559_20
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