Perioperative patients in Palestine have inadequate knowledge about anesthesiologists' roles, highlighting a need for targeted educational efforts, particularly for uneducated, blue-collar workers, refugee camp residents, and orthopedic surgery patients.
The findings of this study showed that perioperative patients in Palestine had inadequate knowledge about anesthesia and the roles of anesthesiologists, especially outside the operating room. Efforts should be made to improve the knowledge and perception of perioperative patients about anesthesia and the roles of anesthesiologists as providers of healthcare services. These efforts should be tailored to target uneducated patients, who have blue-collar jobs, live in refugee camps, and are scheduled to receive orthopedic surgeries.
Zahran et al. (Wed,) studied this question.