TY - JOUR ID - 44438 TI - Experience and Availability of Pelvic Binders at Swedish Trauma Units; A Nationwide Survey JO - Bulletin of Emergency And Trauma JA - BEAT LA - en SN - 2322-2522 AU - Bakhshayesh, Peyman AU - Heljesten, Sara AU - Weidenhielm, Lars AU - Enocson, Anders AD - Karolinska Institute AD - MBBS Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 6 IS - Issue 3 SP - 221 EP - 225 KW - Interview as topic KW - Trauma centres KW - Statistics and numerical data KW - Pelvic bones KW - Pelvic injuries KW - Advanced Trauma Life Support Care KW - Humans DO - N2 - Objective: To assess availability, experience, and knowledge about the Pelvic Circumferential Compression Device (PCCD) in Sweden.Methods: A telephone interview with the current on-call trauma doctors at all trauma units in Sweden was conducted. After a short presentation and oral consent, the doctors were asked to answer four short questions. We asked the doctors to answer whether they knew if they had PCCDs available in their emergency room, how many times had they applied a PCCD, which is the correct level of application for a PCCD, and if a PCCD can stop arterial bleeding.Results: The on-call trauma doctors at the nine University hospitals, twenty-two General hospitals and twenty-one District General hospitals, with response rate of 100%, were interviewed. Availability of PCCD was 85 % and there was no difference between hospital types (p=0.546). In all hospitals 29/52 (56%) of those interviewed had used a PCCD at least once. There were significantly more doctors that had used a PCCD at least once in the University hospitals (8/9), compared to General hospitals (13/22) and District General hospitals (8/21) (p=0.034). A total of 43/52 (83 %) doctors defined the greater trochanters as the correct level of application for a PCCD. No difference was found when comparing hospitals (p=0.208). Only 22/52 (42 %) of doctors answered that a PCCD could not stop an arterial bleeding. No difference was found between hospitals (p=0.665)Conclusion: Less than half of the doctors knew that a PCCD cannot stop arterial bleeding, while the majority knew the correct level of application of a PCCD. UR - https://beat.sums.ac.ir/article_44438.html L1 - https://beat.sums.ac.ir/article_44438_83997b53d227ab9de88a66407d8df47b.pdf ER -