Are parents in the UK equipped to provide adequate burns first aid?

Graham, H; Bache, Sarah E.; Muthayya, Preetha; Baker, J. W.; Ralston, David R.

doi:10.1016/j.burns.2011.08.016

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“…First aid is an effective life‐preservation tool at work, school, home, and in public locations (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies [IFRCS], ). Moreover, first aid can make the injured child feel more comfortable, because it can reduce bleeding or pain (Graham et al ., ). Thus, injury consequences can be minimized by the administration of first aid, and in some self‐limiting or minor injuries, only first aid is required (Difazio & Atkinson, ).…”

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confidence: 97%

Effectiveness of a first‐aid intervention program applied by undergraduate nursing students to preparatory school children

Wafik

Tork

2013

Nursing & Health Sciences

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Childhood injuries constitute a major public health problem worldwide. First aid is an effective life-preservation tool at work, school, home, and in public locations. In this study, the effectiveness of a first-aid program delivered by undergraduate nursing students to preparatory school children was examined. This quasi-experimental study was carried out on 100 school children in governmental preparatory schools in Egypt. The researchers designed a program for first-aid training, and this was implemented by trained nursing students. The evaluation involved immediate post-test and follow-up assessment after two months. The results showed generally low levels of satisfactory knowledge and inadequate situational practice among the school students before the intervention. Statistically-significant improvements were shown at the post- and follow-up tests. Multivariate regression analysis identified the intervention and the type of school as the independent predictors of the change in students' knowledge score, while the intervention and the knowledge score were the predictors of the practice score. The study concluded that a first-aid training program delivered by nursing students to preparatory school children is effective in improving their knowledge and practice.

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Effectiveness of a first‐aid intervention program applied by undergraduate nursing students to preparatory school children

Wafik

Tork

2013

Nursing & Health Sciences

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“…Only 10% of parents attending the outpatient clinic at Sheffield Children's Hospital in the UK would give ideal first aid for a burn, with only 35% cooling the burn for an adequate period of time. [16] The median delay to presentation to the emergency department of 260 minutes after the burn was less than the time noted in Ngwelezane Hospital in northern KwaZulu-Natal. [11] This may be attributed to patients being closer to the hospital, possibly more accessible transport, or better prehospital emergency response infrastructure in our setting compared with the more rural setting of the other study.…”

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Prehospital cooling of severe burns: Experience of the Emergency Department at Edendale Hospital, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Fiandeiro

Govindsamy

Maharaj³

2015

S Afr Med J

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“…In a recent UK study where parents were interviewed and asked about first-aid measures they would provide for a child with a large scald, 61% of parents failed to state that clothes should be stripped and several thought that it would cause further skin damage. 6 The question of whether removing clothing would cause further skin damage is commonly asked by parents of paediatric burn patients admitted to our unit.…”

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confidence: 99%