Knowledge and skills of emergency physicians in managing traumatic dental injuries.
Emergency care
Knowledge
Skills
Traumatic dental injury
Journal
European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society
ISSN: 1863-9941
Titre abrégé: Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 101313350
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2022
Jun 2022
Historique:
received:
24
06
2021
accepted:
07
10
2021
pubmed:
25
10
2021
medline:
18
6
2022
entrez:
24
10
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Emergency departments are frequently confronted with traumatic dental injuries (TDIs). The prognosis of the injured tooth is related to early dental trauma management. For this reason, physicians must be familiar with the appropriate management of TDI. This study aimed to investigate the knowledge and skills of German emergency physicians regarding TDI. An electronic questionnaire was sent to 438 emergency departments throughout Germany. Four hundred and twenty seven questionnaires were evaluated and included in the analysis. The survey contained questions about physician characteristics and assessed their knowledge and skills of managing dental trauma. For statistical analysis, the Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney U test or ANOVA test was used as appropriate. Rank correlations were performed with the Spearman's rank correlation. Out of 427 participants, 256 (59.95%) stated they had no or insufficient knowledge, and 266 (71.12%) stated they had no skills in dental trauma management. Almost 76% of the participants had no previous knowledge of dentistry. Only 7.28% knew the right procedure for replanting an avulsed tooth. Just 26.06% would choose the right medium for temporary tooth storage. Having a dentist in the family (p = 0.0074) or clinical exposure to patients with dental trauma (p = 0.0384) influenced the results of the knowledge score. The knowledge and skills in dental trauma management among German emergency physicians are generally inadequate. Targeted training courses are necessary to ensure early and adequate TDI treatment to reduce the resulting medical and societal costs as much as possible.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34689226
doi: 10.1007/s00068-021-01808-8
pii: 10.1007/s00068-021-01808-8
pmc: PMC9192501
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
2081-2088Informations de copyright
© 2021. The Author(s).
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