Assessment of Knowledge of Radiography Students about Handling of Patient Having Contrast Reactions

Abstract

Aim: Aim of the study is to assess the knowledge of radiography students about handling of patient having contrast reaction Methods: A prospective, questionnaire-based study was carried out in Department of Radiological and Imaging Techniques. A validated questionnaire was circulated among undergraduate, postgraduate and diploma Radiographic students. Result: The total participants were 169 out of which 152 participants responded to questionnaire (89.94%) include undergraduate, postgraduate and diploma students of radiological and imaging techniques. To assess the knowledge of radiography students about handling of patient having contrast reactions, which they gain during theory classes ad from hospital posting. There were 54(35.5%) were female and 98 (64.5%) males. Conclusion: Study concluded that there should be proper theory classes for the conduction of knowledge about handling of patient having contrast reactions in radiology department. Training session and teaching standards should be taken in account for not only the number of hours required to obtain the knowledge with the equipment required to run the classes in the simulation-based learning environment. This questionnaire based survey demonstrate that up-to-date handling of patient having contrast reactions skill in among radiography students of college of paramedical sciences were not sufficient, this should be improved by the well designed training and theoretical sessions. From this study, we suggest that all members of the health care community should attend the webinars, guest lectures and training sessions about knowledge of handling of patient having contrast reactions in radiology department. Keywords: Contrast media, adverse reactions, High osmolar contrast media (HOCM), Low osmolar contrast media (LOCM).