Cross- sectional Questionnaire-Based study to assess the impact of mechanical ventilation training during COVID-19 pandemic

Abstract

Background and aim: Today the whole world is fighting the COVID-19 pandemic with scarcity of critical care experts and sudden surge in patients have come out to the real challenge for our nation. To solve this problem all clinicians, post graduates, undergraduates including all health care workers and support staff should be made conversant, competent, confident and accustomed with ventilators to manage patients during emergency. Government of India has been precocious in designating anaesthesiologists to train health care workers. All clinical experts have taken up the challenge and gone above and beyond in implementing it. Material and method: The prospective questionnaire-based survey study including 210 doctors was conducted in tertiary care hospital. Training included didactic lectures, videos, role plays, skill demonstration along with practice on manikins and preparedness rehearsal. Post training and deployment in COVID -19 area participants were provided with a questionnaire of 15 questions with three possible outcomes. Submission of questionnaire post completion was considered as consent. Observation: Statistical analysis was performed using Statistical package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). Data pertaining to participants receptance of training and its advantage were collected and analysed descriptively using frequencies and percentages. Results: Out of 210 participants 80.95% found the training essential, informative and helpful in-patient management while 19.05% found it informative yet were doubtful regarding enhancement of skills and confidence. Conclusion: This study provided encouraging results and gave new dimensions in making professionals competent in handling COVID -19 crisis.