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BACKGROUND: Basic life support (BLS), a key component of the chain of survival decreases the arrest -cardiopulmonary resuscitation interval and increases the rate of hospital discharge. The study aimed to explore the knowledge of and attitude towards basic life support (BLS) among medical/paramedical professionals.
Basic Life Support (BLS): Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Among Health Care Providers
CENTRAL ASIAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND NATURAL SCIENCE, 2022
Basic life support (BLS), a key component of the chain of survival helps to decrease disease condition and increases the rate of hospital discharge. Adequate awareness of basic life support (BLS) and diseased condition is an important global issue to ensure that individuals can provide necessary life-saving care in emergency situations. It is an integral part of emergency resuscitative care that aims to retain sufficient ventilation and circulation until the cause of the any case is detected and eliminated. It is possible to sustain life in patients whose life has been in danger. This period of temporary support is effective in sustaining life until specific lifesaving could be carried out. BLS course is gaining acceptance worldwide as important lifesaving means within 3-5min of patient collapse in and out hospital. The life support can produce survival rates as high as 49-75%. Effective management of an emergency condition is ultimately the health care personnel’s responsibility. The lack of training and inability to cope with medical emergencies can lead to tragic consequences and legal complications. Therefore, health professionals like doctors and nurses who are directly involved in patient care must be well prepared to manage medical emergencies. Hence, BLS and high-quality lifesaving is an important tool until a medical emergency is treated definitely. This forms an integral link in patient care. Studies done in varied settings have reported that knowledge of BLS and resuscitation technique is lacking even in hospital areas where frequent ways of life savings take place and more emphasis is placed to develop medical skills; viz. the emergency, anesthesia and critical care. The attitude to performing medical skills was also poor in frequent lifesaving performer. Both the attitude to life saving and skills have been shown to improve with training and workshop.
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Basic Life Support Training on the Knowledge and Skills
Journal of patient safety and quality improvement, 2014
Introduction: Basic Life Support (BLS) as the first level of medical care in sudden cardiac arrest and life-threatening illnesses can improve survival outcomes. The aim of this study was to compare the knowledge and skills of BLS among medical students at the beginning and the end of the training course in the emergency department. Materials and Methods:This study was a descriptive analytic cross- sectional study among 90 medical students in their sixth academic year during emergency medicine training course. At first, a standard Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) was performed to obtain their basic knowledge and skills of BLS. Then a training course was provided in two theoretical and practical parts using the 2006 American Heart Association guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care. At the end of the study, the same standard OSCE was performed. Results: The mean score of the primary OSCE was 4.9 with 55 students (61.11%) having a ...
Knowledge of academics and health professionals on Basic Life Support
2020
Introduction: Inadequate assessment and lack of knowledge of the applicable procedures in emergencies are factors that can result in greater population morbidity and mortality. Objective: To systematically review studies in the national literature on the knowledge of academics and health professionals in basic life support and cardiorespiratory arrest. Methods: Systematic review of studies published in journals indexed in SciELO and LILACS databases. Search terms: “Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation”, “Basic Life Support”, “Cardiac Arrest”, “Health Education” and “Knowledge”. Complete articles published until December 2018 were included. They analyzed the knowledge of students and/or graduated health professionals about basic life support and its procedures, as well as teaching strategies. Studies with undergraduate health professionals and/or with hospital conduct and/or advanced life support were excluded. Results: Searches identified 60 articles, 16 of which were included. Of these, e...
IP innovative publication pvt. ltd, 2019
Introduction: There is increased risk of severe morbidities or death from sudden cardiovascular incidence, stroke, choking and drowning if not resuscitated by first responders at the site of crisis. Health care professional are expected to be competent in resuscitate technique from their initial posting and demand for BLS training is increasing worldwide. Objectives: Aim was to assess the awareness about Basic Life Support (BLS) among the undergraduate MBBS students. Simultaneously we have investigated impact of our BLS training by the post-training evaluation and the feedback from student's performance. Materials and Methods: Study group comprised of 432 undergraduate MBBS students from medical college. We had divided students in pre-clinical 1 st & 2 nd year and clinical for 3 Rd 1st & final year MBBS students. We had constructed questionnaire having multiple choice questions. Questionnaire, lecture and videos of BLS were prepared based on 2015 American Heart Association Resuscitation Council. Results and Discussion: In our study only 2% from male and only 1.56% from females were already BLS trained, showing gross lack of BLS training. When we compare the pre-test between inter group it was showing p value of 0.899 (mean score 10.6±2) and post-test inter group it was 0.913 (Mean sore 16.8±1.8), showing insignificant. But, when we compare pre-test and post-test in pre-clinical students and for the clinical (intra group) it was showing p value of 0.000001(<0.005), so highly significant. Regarding scores none was there in excellent group (score ≥ 85%) in pre-test evaluation from either group, but in post-test there were 55.15% students from pre-clinical and 56.75% were from clinical group, showing knowledge improvement in students of both the groups. When we compare the skill-based difference between gender it was showing only 29% females were perfect to perform CPR with adequate depth and rate in first attempt while for male it was 85.14% students. And even after all correction and practice still 20% female students needed much practice while in male it was only 1%. Conclusion: From this study we come to know that knowledge of BLS/CPR is so less in our study groups. But we can improve this by frequent lectures and hands on training in under graduate students. Hence it is essential to train the medical students from the beginning from their MBBS training.
2014
Basic Life Support (BLS) is medical procedures and skills utilized in case of an emergency to save lives. It is given to the victims of life-threatening illnesses or injuries until provision of full medical care at hospitals. BLS is given by health care providers such as physicians, paramedics, emergency medical technician and by lay-persons with BLS training. College of Applied Medical Sciences (CAMS) and college of medicine (COM) students at King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University of Health Sciences (KSAU-HS) Riyadh are the future health care providers in community, which makes their awareness and knowledge of BLS crucial. Therefore, this study was conducted to find out the level of BLS knowledge among CAMS and COM students, to figure out their attitude to obtain knowledge of BLS skills, to practice these skills and wherever needed. This study was conducted by assessing the responses of CAMS and COM students to a questionnaire consisting of 20 questions about BLS. Response of students ...