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

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.