Knowledge and Awareness regarding Emergency Colour Codes among Resident Doctors and Nursing Staffs of Tertiary Care Facility of District Etawah

Authors

  • Deepanshi Saxena MD Post Graduate, Department of Community Medicine, UPUMS, Saifai, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8519-2694
  • Nilima Takhelchangbam MD Post Graduate, Department of Community Medicine, UPUMS, Saifai, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Tanya Agarwal MD Post Graduate, Department of Community Medicine, UPUMS, Saifai, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4284-3623
  • Bharti Rakesh Kumar MD Post Graduate, Department of Community Medicine, UPUMS, Saifai, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • NP Singh Professor, Department of Community Medicine, UPUMS, Saifai, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4307-9196
  • PK Jain Professor and Head of Department, Department of Community Medicine, UPUMS, Saifai, Etawah, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Keywords:

Emergency color codes, National Incident Management System, ACLS, BLS

Abstract

Background: Emergency codes are comprehensive, nationwide,
systematic approach to incident management, includes the command
and coordination of incidents, resource management, and information
management. Therefore, it is important for all residents, doctors and
staff to be aware and have knowledge about it.
Aims: 1) To assess the knowledge and awareness about emergency
colour codes among resident doctors and nursing staffs of tertiary care
health centre. 2) To find out the training status of Advanced Cardiac Life
Support and Basic Life Support among resident doctors and nursing staffs
Methods and Material: A cross sectional study was conducted on all
the resident doctors and the nursing staffs in UPUMS Saifai, Etawah.
A pre-designed and pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire was
used to get the desired information. The questions were pertaining to
knowledge and awareness of emergency codes, ACLS, BLS and training
regarding to it.
Data were entered in excel sheet and were analysed by using IBM SPSS
version 25. Descriptive statistics was calculated for quantitative variables.
Chi-square and Fischer-exact test was used for analysis of categorical
variables. P value less than 0.05 was taken statistically significant.
Results: Out of 120 participants, 60% (72/ 120) were resident doctors
and 40% (48/ 120) were nursing staffs. Most of the resident doctors
(47/ 72) were trained in Basic Life Support as compared to Advanced
Cardiac Life Support.
Conclusions: Knowledge and awareness regarding emergency colour
codes was very poor among resident doctors and nursing staffs and
also training was not done in BLS and ACLS.

How to cite this article:
Saxena D, Devi TN, Agarwal T, Kumar BR, Singh
NP, Jain PK. Knowledge and Awareness regarding
Emergency Colour Codes among Resident
Doctors and Nursing Staffs of Tertiary Care Facility
of District Etawah. Int J HealthCare Edu & Med
Inform. 2021;8(1):12-18.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24321/2455.9199.202109

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Published

2021-03-31

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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2021): International Journal of Healthcare Education & Medical Informatics

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Research Article

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