Association of Residents' Neural Signatures With Stress Resilience During Surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Intraoperative stressors may compound cognitive load, prompting performance decline and threatening patient safety. However, not all surgeons cope equally well with stress, and the disparity between performance stability and decline under high cognitive demand may be characterized by differences in activation within brain areas associated with attention and concentration such as the prefrontal cortex (PFC).

Objective

To compare PFC activation between surgeons demonstrating stable performance under temporal stress with those exhibiting stress-related performance decline.

Design, setting, and participants

Cohort study conducted from July 2015 to September 2016 at the Imperial College Healthcare National Health Service Trust, England. One hundred two surgical

SUBMITTER: Modi HN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6686757 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature