| Knowledge about Anaesthesia and Anaesthesiologist Amongst General Population in India. | |
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PMID: 20640120 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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SUMMARY: Anaesthesiologists are playing a decisive role in patient management. Present day anaesthesiology is based on the use of newer and safer drugs, better patient monitoring, pain management and critical care. But the general public knows little of these developments. The study was undertaken to assess the perception regarding the anaesthesiology and anaesthesiologists among the general population. The present study was conducted on 300 persons (patient, patient's attendant and medical undergraduates) between 18-75 years of age to assess the knowledge regarding anaesthesiology and the anaesthesiologists. All collected data were categorized into 5 groups as per the educational status of the study population. Perception of anaesthesiologist as a doctor in illiterate, graduate and postgraduate population was 19.51%, 58.57% and 87.88% respectively. Anaesthesiology as a separate medical discipline was not known to 100%, 73.87%, 64.29% and 51.52% of the illiterate, upto matriculation, graduate and postgraduate population respectively. Among the population who knew something about general anaesthesia, none from upto matriculation and 33.87%, 44.83% and 100% from the graduate, post graduate and medical undergraduate groups respectively knew that anaesthesia is administered with specialized equipments along with monitoring. Illiterates did not know about regional anaesthesia, while most of others had some knowledge about it. The results of the study reflect the wide spread ignorance and misconceptions about anaesthesiology and anaesthesiologists still prevalent in public in India. |
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S K Mathur; S K Dube; Sunil Jain |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Indian journal of anaesthesia Volume: 53 ISSN: 0976-2817 ISO Abbreviation: Indian J Anaesth Publication Date: 2009 Apr |
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Created Date: 2010-07-19 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0013243 Medline TA: Indian J Anaesth Country: India |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 179-86 Citation Subset: - |
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Reader, Department of Anaesthesiology, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras HinduUniversity, Varanasi-221005, INDIA. |
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