Cardiac autonomic and cortisol stress responses to real operations in surgeons: relationship with individual psychobiological characteristics and experience.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Surgeons are exposed to high levels of intraoperative stress, which could compromise their psychological well-being in the long term. This study aimed at exploring the effects of real operations on the activity of stress response systems (i.e., cardiac autonomic function and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis) during and in the aftermath of surgery, and the moderating role of individual psychobiological characteristics and different levels of experience (senior vs expert surgeons).

Methods

Heart rate, heart rate variability, and salivary cortisol measures (as indexes of cardiac autonomic and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity, respectively) were assessed during real operations and in the perioperative period in a sample of surgeons (n = 16). Surgeons' p

SUBMITTER: Carnevali L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9942282 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature