Open AccessDoes community emergency care initiative improve the knowledge and skill of healthcare workers and laypersons in basic emergency care in India?
Author(s) -
Sanjeev Bhoi,
Nirmal Thakur,
Pankaj Verma,
Chhavi Sawhney,
Sameer Ganpat Vankar,
Deepak Agrawal,
Tejprakash Sinha
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of emergencies, trauma and shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 0974-519X
pISSN - 0974-2700
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2700.173870
Subject(s) - health care , healthcare worker , medical emergency , emergency department , nursing , business , medicine , political science , law
Due to lack of training in emergency care, basic emergency care in India is still in its infancy. We designed All India Institute of Medical Sciences basic emergency care course (AIIMS BECC) to address the issue.