R. Koray EYİSON, Ahu PAKDEMİRLİ, Erkan AYDİN, Ayla Sayin OZTURK, Zahir KİLİÇ, Burak DEMİRBAG, Mesut ORTATATLİ, Sermet SEZİGEN, Levent KENAR

Evaluation of the Medical Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Awareness Level of Emergency Healthcare Professionals Serving on Different Centres

Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the medical chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear CBRN awareness of emergency healthcare professionals from two different centres.Methods: The survey was conducted among 67 healthcare professionals including physicians, nurses, emergency medical technicians, and paramedics from two emergency departments of two different cities. A questionnaire that was designed in order to evaluate demographic data age, gender, job description, education level and knowledge/experience about medical CBRN was filled by participants during the face-toface interviews. All data were evaluated statistically in order to obtain mean awareness score MAS of participants and institutions.Results: It was found that MAS of the whole participants is 7.62±3.92. There was a statistically significant difference observed between MAS of Training and Research Hospital 6.75±3.97 and State Hospital 8.64±3.65 p

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CBRN, awareness, preparedness, emergency medicine,

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