The clinical skills of emergency medical staff confronting trauma

Received: December 31, 2017; Accepted: January 27, 2018 ABSTRACT Background: Today, the accidents and catastrophes causing trauma are one of the fundamental health needs of industrial world, and also a prevalent cause of mortality, especially in Iran. [...]pre-hospital and emergency medical system care are considered one of the important factors in an effective trauma system. [...]one-way ANOVA compared the scores of knowledge and skills of the study participants in different groups regarding professional experience, and hours of theoretic and practical training in trauma that showed that there was only a significant difference between groups with different professional experience and functional scores. [...]generally, it could be concluded that most of the study population had an average level of knowledge of taking care of traumatic patients. CONCLUSION The results of this study showed that the majority of emergency medical personnel working in emergency centers of Alborz University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Alborz province, had an acceptable level of knowledge and skills in pre-hospital trauma care, but considering the significant gap between the obtained score and the ideal level, the importance of the emergency medicine staff's work as the first responders, and the high rate of accidents, and natural and human-made disasters in our country, it is expected that with high-quality education, this hard-working group can be enabled to provide satisfactory service and reduce rates of mortality and morbidity.