Table 5.
Subgroup analysis based on academic degrees of responders regarding their confidence on management of medical emergencies during their dental practice.
| Questions | Answers (grouped according to respondent degree) |
p-value* | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medicine (with and without specialty or aptitude test) | Dentistry (with and without further dental specialty) | ||
| Please, indicate, on a scale from 1 (severe management difficulty) to 10 (full confidence), how much you feel able to manage the following types of medical emergencies in the professional environment in which you operate | |||
| Total, n | 1840 | 4978 | |
| Vasovagal syndrome | |||
| Poor confidence (1,2,3,4), n (%) | 189 (10.3) | 671 (13.5) | |
| Medium confidence (5,6,7), n (%) | 518 (28.1) | 1799 (36.1) | <0.01 |
| High confidence (8,9,10), n (%) | 1133 (61.6) | 2508 (50.4) | |
| Allergic drug reaction | |||
| Poor confidence (1,2,3,4), n (%) | 412 (22.4) | 1753 (35.2) | |
| Medium confidence (5,6,7), n (%) | 884 (48.0) | 2461 (49.4) | <0.01 |
| High confidence (8,9,10), n (%) | 544 (29.6) | 764 (15.4) | |
| Hypertensive crisis | |||
| Poor confidence (1,2,3,4), n (%) | 419 (22.8) | 1898 (38.1) | |
| Medium confidence (5,6,7), n (%) | 862 (46.8) | 2405 (48.3) | <0.01 |
| High confidence (8,9,10), n (%) | 559 (30.4) | 675 (13.6) | |
| Asthmatic crisis | |||
| Poor confidence (1,2,3,4), n (%) | 440 (23.9) | 1766 (35.5) | |
| Medium confidence (5,6,7), n (%) | 896 (48.7) | 2443 (49.1) | <0.01 |
| High confidence (8,9,10), n (%) | 504 (27.4) | 769 (15.4) | |
| Seizure | |||
| Poor confidence (1,2,3,4), n (%) | 575 (31.2) | 1962 (39.4) | |
| Medium confidence (5,6,7), n (%) | 853 (46.4) | 2214 (44.5) | <0.01 |
| High confidence (8,9,10), n (%) | 412 (22.4) | 802 (16.1) | |
| Hypoglycemic crisis | |||
| Poor confidence (1,2,3,4), n (%) | 323 (17.5) | 1180 (23.7) | |
| Medium confidence (5,6,7), n (%) | 794 (43.2) | 2352 (47.3) | <0.01 |
| High confidence (8,9,10), n (%) | 723 (39.3) | 1446 (29.0) | |
| Hyperglycemic crisis | |||
| Poor confidence (1,2,3,4), n (%) | 606 (32.9) | 2162 (43.4) | |
| Medium confidence (5,6,7), n (%) | 857 (46.6) | 2261 (45.4) | <0.01 |
| High confidence (8,9,10), n (%) | 377 (20.5) | 555 (11.2) | |
| Anaphylaxis | |||
| Poor confidence (1,2,3,4), n (%) | 738 (40.1) | 2422 (48.6) | |
| Medium confidence (5,6,7), n (%) | 783 (42.6) | 2079 (41.8) | <0.01 |
| High confidence (8,9,10), n (%) | 319 (17.3) | 477 (9.6) | |
| Angina pectoris: | |||
| Poor confidence (1,2,3,4), n (%) | 674 (36.6) | 2499 (50.2) | |
| Medium confidence (5,6,7), n (%) | 832 (45.2) | 2067 (41.5) | <0.01 |
| High confidence (8,9,10), n (%) | 334 (18.2) | 412 (8.3) | |
| Myocardial infarction | |||
| Poor confidence (1,2,3,4), n (%) | 936 (50.9) | 2830 (56.8) | |
| Medium confidence (5,6,7), n (%) | 699 (38.0) | 1802 (36.2) | <0.01 |
| High confidence (8,9,10), n (%) | 205 (11.1) | 346 (7.0) | |
| Transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke | |||
| Poor confidence (1,2,3,4), n (%) | 1041 (56.6) | 3154 (63.4) | |
| Medium confidence (5,6,7), n (%) | 643 (34.9) | 1575 (31.6) | <0.01 |
| High confidence (8,9,10), n (%) | 156 (8.5) | 249 (5.0) | |
| Severe bleeding | |||
| Poor confidence (1,2,3,4), n (%) | 632 (34.3) | 1907 (38.3) | |
| Medium confidence (5,6,7), n (%) | 828 (45.0) | 2237 (45.0) | <0.01 |
| High confidence (8,9,10), n (%) | 380 (20.7) | 834 (16.7) | |
| Foreign body ingestion | |||
| Poor confidence (1,2,3,4), n (%) | 707 (38.4) | 1792 (36.0) | |
| Medium confidence (5,6,7), n (%) | 848 (46.1) | 2447 (49.2) | 0.08 |
| High confidence (8,9,10), n (%) | 285 (15.5) | 739 (14.8) | |
| Foreign body inhalation | |||
| Poor confidence (1,2,3,4), n (%) | 932 (50.7) | 2413 (48.5) | 0.06 |
| Medium confidence (5,6,7), n (%) | 725 (39.4) | 2114 (42.5) | |
| High confidence (8,9,10), n (%) | 183 (9.9) | 451 (9.0) | |
| Would you consider it useful for an institutional register of medical emergencies occurred in the dental setting to be made available and continuously updated on the website of the commission for dentists' board, collecting the reports of medical emergencies in an anonymous and voluntary form? Give your rating on a scale from 1 (not at all useful) to 10 (extremely useful) | |||
| Total, n | 1840 | 4978 | |
| Not very useful (1,2,3,4), n (%) | 84 (4.6) | 247 (5.0) | |
| Moderately useful (5,6,7), n (%) | 442 (24.0) | 1200 (24.1) | 0.79 |
| Very helpful (8,9,10), n (%) | 1314 (71.4) | 3531 (70.9) | |
| Would you consider it appropriate to improve your professional preparation in the field of prevention, diagnosis and management of medical emergencies? | |||
| Tot, n | 1840 | 4978 | |
| Yes, n (%) | 1790 (97.3) | 4931 (99.1) | <0.01 |
| No, n (%) | 50 (2.7) | 47 (0.9) | |
| Would you consider it useful that the commission for dentists' board should promote theoretical-practical national courses for the management of medical emergencies in dental setting? | |||
| Tot, n | 1840 | 4978 | |
| Yes, n (%) | 1736 (94.3) | 4810 (96.6) | |
| No, n (%) | 20 (1.1) | 26 (0.5) | <0.01 |
| I don’ know, n (%) | 84 (4.6) | 142 (2.9) | |
| Would you consider it useful that the commission for dentists' board should prepare a poster for diagnosis and the management of medical emergencies in dental setting, to be displayed in the facility where you work? | |||
| Tot, n | 1840 | 4978 | |
| Yes, n (%) | 1620 (88.0) | 4413 (88.6) | |
| No, n (%) | 77 (4.2) | 188 (3.8) | 0.69 |
| I don’ know, n (%) | 143 (7.8) | 377 (7.6) | |
Legend: * Fisher's exact test.