Introduction: Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne viral disease caused by a avivirus. There are four distinct serotypes of dengue virus, namely
DEN-1, 2, 3 and 4. Female Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes are the primary and secondary vectors in Malaysia, respectively.
Evidently, dengue is the most rapidly spreading arboviral disease in the world.
Aim: To know about the knowledge and current practice of the emergency physicians and other physicians regarding admission criteria of dengue
fever in Kolkata. To preserve the resource and to prevent unnecessary utilization of hospital facilities during dengue epidemics by following up the
proper criteria of admission for acute febrile patient suspecting of dengue fever/ dengue hemorrhagic fever/ dengue shock syndrome from the
emergency department.
Materials and methods: This is a questionnaire-based study and the study was conducted in peerless hospital and b.k roy research centre. The
duration of the study was one year (from 1/01/2019- 31/12/2020). Apre validated questionnaire was distributed among the emergency physicians
and other general physicians who deal with management of dengue patients and the responses so obtained were analysed. Total 125 participants
were present in this study.
Result: We found that 5(4.0%) doctors work in Cardiology department, 40(32.0%) doctors work in Emergency medicine department, 6(4.8%)
doctors work in Gynecology department, 46(36.8%) doctors work in Medicine department, 8(6.4%) doctors work in Nephrology department,
8(6.4%) doctors work in Neurology department, 8(6.4%) doctors work in Orthopedic department and 4(3.2%) doctors work in Surgery
department.
Conclusion: However, a knowledge gap has been reported regarding important issues in clinical presentation, treatment, prevention, and control.
Practices regarding frequent clinical monitoring were consistent with local and international guide-lines