Stress of emergency physicians during helicopter operations: impact of patients' diagnoses, severity of diagnoses, and physicians' work experience.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Emergency physicians are in danger of developing illnesses due to stress in their demanding work environment. Until today, scholars have not identified stressors or resilience factors that qualify to promote the preservation of emergency physicians' well-being. Therefore, potential influencing variables such as patients' diagnoses, the severity of diagnoses, as well as physicians' work experience have to be considered. The present study aims at investigating emergency physicians in the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS)' autonomic nervous system activity during emergency operations in one shift with respect to patients' diagnoses, severity of diagnoses, and physicians' work experience.

Methods

Measurement of HRV (employing the parameters RMSSD and LF/HF) for

SUBMITTER: Petrowski K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9942287 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature