Assessing the knowledge of physicians and emergency medical staff about the correct diagnosis and treatment of patients with anaphylaxis

Abstract

Anaphylaxis is a systemic, severe and life-threatening reaction that almost always occurs unexpectedly and can cause death by airway obstruction or vascular collapse. Due to the prevalence of anaphylaxis and the need for physicians and medical staff to familiarize themselves with this issue, unfortunately no effective measures have been taken so far Was. Materials and Methods: This descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was performed on physicians working in the emergency department of Tabriz hospitals in 1399. The list of physicians working in each emergency department was prepared through the emergency supervisor and the form designed by those physicians was completed in the same conditions. In order to evaluate the knowledge of physicians and medical staff, a standard form has been prepared at Rasoul Akram University with the opinion of allergy professors in the country, which includes the diagnosis and treatment of patients with anaphylaxis. In our study, this form was used to evaluate information related to anaphylaxis in physicians working in all emergency departments of Tabriz hospitals in 1399. These forms were provided to physicians by dissertation facilitators in the groups most often associated with patients with anaphylaxis, such as general practitioners, residents and emergency medicine specialists, and residents and pediatricians and internal medicine specialists. Results: People with less experience of working in the emergency department were more successful in responding correctly. The mean age of people who answered the question of resistant anaphylaxis to the right choice was lower than other people, and the correct answer to the questions was statistically inversely related to age. People who were at the end of the spectrum (those who had the least time and the most time to qualify) gave the most wrong answers about refractory anaphylaxis, and people between the two ends of the spectrum chose the right answer.