Level of Knowledge about Medical Emergency Management by Fifth- and Sixth-Year Students from the School of Dentistry at the Universidad Autónoma del Paraguay Pierre Fauchard

Mario Martín Casco Florentín

Universidad Autónoma del Paraguay Pierre Fauchard.

Ninfa Lucía Jacquett Toledo

Universidad Autónoma del Paraguay Pierre Fauchard.

Introduction: Medical emergencies are events that have immediate consequences and are life threatening, for which they require fast and accurate action.   Aim: To determine the level of knowledge of fifth- and sixth-year students from the School of Dentistry at the Universidad Autónoma del Paraguay Pierre Fauchard on the management of medical emergencies that may arise during consultation.   Materials and methods: Cross-sectional, descriptive, observational study. A survey was conducted to test their knowledge about medical emergencies through a structured questionnaire, with 25 multiple choice closed-ended questions to measure the established variables. The sample consisted of 146 fifth- and sixth- year students. The variables of interest were age, sex, participation in first aid courses (theoretical or theo- retical-practical) and level of favorable or unfavorable knowledge, based on a 60 % scale in which a total of 15 correct answers is considered favorable.   Results and conclusions: It is concluded that the level of knowledge of fifth- and sixth-year students from the School of Dentistry at Pierre Fauchard was unfavorable in 56 %, in a predominantly female population with a percentage of 87.7 %, and an age group of 23 years old with a percentage of 35.6 %. Only 17.8% of the students participated in a first aid course, of which 6.8 % was theoretical and 11.0 % was theoreti- cal-practical.
Keywords: students, knowledge, emergency, dentistry
Published
2017-10-13

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Level of Knowledge about Medical Emergency Management by Fifth- and Sixth-Year Students from the School of Dentistry at the Universidad Autónoma del Paraguay Pierre Fauchard. (2017). Revista Nacional De Odontología, 14(26). https://doi.org/10.16925/od.v13i26.2041
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