Evaluation of knowledge of medical staff of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences about CPR of COVID-19 patients
Iranian Journal of Emergency Medicine,
Vol. 8 No. 1 (2021),
23 November 2020
,
Page e34
https://doi.org/10.22037/ijem.v8i1.35940
Abstract
Introduction: the emergence of pandemic of COVID19 raised many concerns in medical approaches. One of these issues was whether medical staffs are able to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) safely regarding the transmission of the infection. So the aim of this study was to evaluate knowledge of the medical experts in Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences about CPR of COVID-19 patients.
Methods: In this study, 129 people working in the hospital of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences, including nurses, physicians, operating room experts and medical emergencies were assessed. The checklist consists of 21 questions that assess the knowledge of the medical experts about CPR of COVID19 patients and the content validity of this checklist was confirmed by 10 specialist physicians. Also information on demographic variables are measured including age, sex, work experience by year, history of participation in CPR workshops for COVID19 patients, number of attendance at the workshop, hospital of work, field of study and degree. The association between these variables and the score of each person in the test has been assessed.
Results: The study showed that the Score of answering the questions was directly related to the workshops held on resuscitation of COVID19 patients, age and work experience. And questions that were not answered correctly by most participants were related to ventilation and intubation of COVID19. Vaseei and Emdadi hospitals received higher scores than other hospitals.
Conclusion: The role of participating in the workshop is directly related to the level of knowledge of the treatment experts and getting a better score. Mobini and Heshmatiyeh hospitals, which had lower scores than other hospitals and should pay more attention to the issue of training and workshops.
- Epidemic
- Intubation
- COVID19
- CPR
- Ventilation
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