A SURVEY ON PUBLIC AWARENESS ABOUT THE ROLE OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS

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Background:Anesthesiology is a medical discipline and the specialist of this science is the anesthesiologist. The roles of anesthesiologists are not obvious to most of public, although their roles are very important and critical. The roles of anesthesiologistsexceed the limitation of operating room, they have many roles preoperatively and postoperatively. More awareness about their roles is necessary. Patients may become more relaxed when they know their anesthesiologistand identify his role in their safety and success of their surgery. Aim:The objective of this study is too assess the public knowledge about the role of anesthesiologist and to educate the public. Methods:This study included 202 patients to answer 10 questions about their knowledge regarding anesthesiologist and anesthesia using simple and short questionnaire. Results:Most of patients in this study had good knowledge about anesthesiologist and most percentages of positive answers were high .No association between awareness of patients and gender was found. Conclusion:Patients had good and acceptable knowledge about the role of anesthesiologist.

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[Abdullah S. Alqefari,Abdullah A. alyami, Tarik M. Almowald, Faisal M. Alturi, Mousa R. Alhokail, Mohammed A. Alqhtani, Jamal A. Alghamdi, Naif S. Alotaibi, Maha A. Alenezi, MohammedA.Alkahmous, Abdulaziz A. Alkahmous and Omar A. Ahmed. (2017); A SURVEY ON PUBLIC AWARENESS ABOUT THE ROLE OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Feb). 1901-1906] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com

Abdullah Sulaiman AlQefari
MBBS, College of Medicine, JUST, Riyadh, KSA (GP, Ministry of health, KSA)

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3359      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3359

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