A comparative study of medical emergency among dental and nursing student respective to knowledge, attitude and practice: A cross sectional study

• Author Details:   
• Amit Sharma
• Chitranshi Chouhan ^*
• Prateek Jain
• Darshita Bandil
• Mamta Chaudhari
• Ashita Sha

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Background: A medical emergency refers to a condition that presents an immediate risk to a person's life. Such emergency situations can arise at any moment can be prevented when healthcare professionals have sound knowledge, attitude, and practice toward medical emergencies.

Aim and objective: Aim of study is asses the knowledge, attitude, and practice of medical emergency among different healthcare profession i.e. nursing, dental.

Materials and Methods: The study participant was selected by convenience sampling method. A survey was conducted through a questionnaire to assessing the knowledge, attitude, and practice of medical emergencies after that data was transferred to an excel sheet and a chi-square test was employed to determine any meaningful association between the parameters, with a P value of less than 0.05 deemed statistically significant. The analysis was conducted using version 22.0 of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software.

Result: The questionnaire was distributed among the participants 150 participants among 139 questionnaires were received a response rate was 92.6%. 95.5% of dental and 94% of nursing participants record past medical history covering medicaments as well as allergic reactions before initiating any treatment, Only 51.6% of participants from the dental profession while a major proportion from the nursing profession (86%) have practiced previous workshops or training on emergency training with the significant difference among two professions respectively (p=0.001).

Conclusion: The study showed that Knowledge regarding diagnosis and BLS was better among nursing participants.