scholarly journals Therapeutic Strategies to Tackle Burnout and Emotional Exhaustion in Frontline Medical Staff: Narrative Review

2021 ◽  
Vol Volume 14 ◽  
pp. 1429-1436
Author(s):  
Daniel C McFarland ◽  
Fay J Hlubocky
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Medical Staff ◽  
Therapeutic Strategies ◽  
Narrative Review

scholarly journals A Narrative Review on the Role and Safety Challenges of Frontline Medical Staff and Emerging Technologies during COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malik Hasnain
Keyword(s):  
Medical Staff ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Rapid Review

<p>We have elaborated on the research on the COVID-19 epidemic with regards to the roles of frontline medical staff and emerging technologies and explained the study method, results, and discussion in detail. It will make the reader feel happy in terms of the findings of this rapid review in the prevailing COVID-19 situation. We hope that it would help enrich the readers' knowledge. </p>

scholarly journals Contributions to the resilience study of ATI medical staff

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-163
Author(s):  
Rodica Eugenia SÎRGHIE ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Stress ◽  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Medical Staff ◽  
High Stress ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Significance Threshold ◽  
Professional Stress ◽  
Professional Fulfillment ◽  
Icu Physicians

The stress represents an adaptation reaction of the human body to external or internal factors, with the tendency to restore its balance, the negative effects of the stress being related to the actions of catecholamine and cortisone, to the decline of the gamma interferon secretion and NK cells inhibition. The physical and mental/ emotional stress sustained during a professional activity (especially by medical staff) can lead to an overloading syndrome, named burnout syndrome, with 3 (three) phases: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and low personal fulfillment. Resilience represents the native resistance (or gained during the lifetime) of a person to physical or mental/emotional stress. The purpose of this research was to establish the effect of stress on the medical staff, especially ICU staff (Intensive Care Unit), and to study the resilience as protection against stress. Materials and methods. Using Maslach burnout questionnaire and the resilience scale – questionnaires applied to 300 subjects (ICU batch: 75 ICU physicians, 75 ICU nurses; the witness batch: 75 physicians of other specialities and 75 nurses of other specialities) from 11 hospitals in Bucharest, during the year 2015. Were used SPSS program, Pearson corelations, Anova test and the descriptive data analysis function for the information collected from the subjects. We could notice significant statistic differences between the four subcategories – as regarding the burnout scores for emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, professional fulfillment and resilience, with significance threshold less than 0,05. Conclusion. Resilience is lower in case of medical staff (physicians and nurses) with significant increases of emotional exhaustion scale and depersonalization scale of Maslach questionnaire; nurses are less affected by the difficulties of the activities within ICU sections comparing to ICU physicians regarding the professional stress degree, the results revealed that the less affected by the professional stress are the nurses of other specialities; resilience turned out to be a real buffer as regarding the professional stress; resident physicians (with low experience and a high stress vulnerability) are the most exposed to the harmful action of the burnout syndrome.

scholarly journals Hospital Real-Time Location System-A Practical Approach in Healthcare: A Narrative Review Article

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leila GHOLAMHOSSEINI ◽  
Farahnaz SADOUGHI ◽  
Aliasghar SAFAEI
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Medical Staff ◽  
Data Exchange ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
Emergency Situations ◽  
System A ◽  
Medical Centers ◽  
Location Systems

Background: The Hospital Real-time Location Systems (HRTLS), deal with monitoring the patients, medical staff and valuable medical equipment in emergency situations. Therefore, the study aimed to propose Hospital Real-Time Location Systems based on the novel technologies in Iran. Methods: In this narrative-review, the articles and official reports on HRTLS, were gathered and analyzed from related textbooks and indexing sites with the defined keywords in English or Persian. The search of databases such as IDTechEx, IEEE, PubMed Central, Science Direct, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, Scopus, Web of Science, Elsevier journals, WHO publications and Google Scholar was performed to reconfirm the efficiency of HRTLS from 2006 to 2017. Results: Various technologies have been used in the current systems, which have led to the reduced error rate, costs and increased speed of providing the healthcare services. Applications of these systems include tracking of patient’s, medical staff and valuable medical assets. Besides, achieving the patient & staff satisfaction is among other basic applications of these Systems. The accurate data exchange and processes control are considered as positive aspects of this technology. Conclusion: HRTLS has great importance in healthcare systems and its efficiency in medical centers is reliable; hence, it seems necessary to determine the organization’s requirements, apply novel technologies such as cloud computing and Internet of things, and integrate them to get access to maximum advantages in Iranian healthcare centers.

scholarly journals Burnout syndrome in medical staff

2021 ◽  
pp. 171-179
Author(s):  
Angela Groza ◽  
◽  
Lilia Grati ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Medical Staff ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Personal Satisfaction ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Great Magnitude ◽  
Resident Physicians

Burnout syndrome is a complex phenomenon, of great magnitude, which occurs in extremely demanding professions emotionally and nervously, with deep echoes in the psychoaffective structure of individuals and making their mark on professional life and social life. In this context, the study presents the results of experimental research on burnout syndrome specific to medical staff: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, physical symptoms and personal satisfaction. The study sample consisted of 210 health workers who were divided into 3 categories: (1) depending on the type of care: doctors, residents and nurses; (2) depending on the type of services provided; (3) depending on gender. The results indicate that burnout syndrome is found in larger sizes in resident physicians relative to physicians and nurses, holding the highest values at all four scales of the burnout syndrome study inventory. The present research highlighted the prevalence of emotional exhaustion, physical symptoms and personal satisfaction among the medical staff of the psychiatric hospital, and on a depersonalization scale belong to the medical staff of the children's hospital, showing that men are more vulnerable to the development of burnout to women.

scholarly journals Burnout syndrome in nurses/technicians in intensive care units of Clinical Center of Montenegro

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
Dragana Backović ◽  
Dragana Jovanović ◽  
Ljubica Pejakov
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Human Service ◽  
Medical Staff ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Clinical Center ◽  
The One

Introduction. The Burnout syndrom is a health issue that greatly disables a person. It includes emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and reduced efficiency in the workplace. So far, this issue has not been addressed where medical staff is concerned. Methods. The Maslach Burnout Inventory - Human Service Survey and Demografic Questionnaire were used. Emotional exhaustion is taken to be the most important aspect of the syndrome. Results. The sample consisted of data acquired from 59 nurses/technicians, out of which 45 were female and 14 male. 12% of them possessed all of the characteristics belonging to the syndrome, 27% of them were overextended (whereby the majority of them were inefficient), while the additional 10% were ineffective. There was a correlation between the chronic disease, on the one hand, and emotional exhaustion (p<0.000) and average ranks of exhaustion scale, on the other hand (p=0.006). Furthermore, there was a significant correlation between reduced efficiency in the workplace and chronic problems (p=0.006). Conclusion. The Burnout syndrome is a multidimensional issue. The method of perceiving the measured dimensions influence the obtained results. The data have shown that the majority of the respondents have some kind of problem concerning their job (burnout, being overextended or ineffective). Significant correlation between chronic disesases and emotional exhaustion underlines the need for further research to benefit the medical staff, as well as health system.

scholarly journals Current concepts from diagnosis to management in Gorham–Stout disease: a systematic narrative review of about 350 cases

2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Andrea Angelini ◽  
Nicolò Mosele ◽  
Elisa Pagliarini ◽  
Pietro Ruggieri
Keyword(s):  
Functional Impairment ◽  
Clinical Management ◽  
Therapeutic Strategies ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Spinal Instability ◽  
List Type ◽  
Osteoblast Function ◽  
Pharmacological Approach ◽  
Current Standards ◽  
Present Progressive

Patients with Gorham–Stout disease (GSD) present progressive destruction and resorption of bone. Typical bone-related symptoms include swelling, pain and functional impairment in the region involved. The three aspects of GSD etiopathology are osteoclasts, angiogenesis/lymphangiogenesis and osteoblast function. Multi-targeted pharmacological approach includes innovative options and represent milestones of treatment, sometimes associated with radiotherapy. Surgery is mainly used to treat complications: pathologic/impending fractures, spinal instability or deformities and chylothorax. In this narrative review, we highlight current standards in diagnosis, clinical management and therapeutic strategies.

scholarly journals Assessment of noise pollution in operating theatre

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Paraskevi Svardagalou ◽  
Antonia Kalogianni ◽  
Dimitris Papageorgiou
Keyword(s):  
Operating Room ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Nursing Staff ◽  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Medical Staff ◽  
Noise Pollution ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Operating Theatre ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Professional Burnout

Introduction: Noise is considered as a common and widespread problem in the working environment. There is a matter of noise pollution in operating theatres, which has side effects on health and working efficiency of the personnel.Aim: The assessment of the level of noise in the operating room and the analysis of the burnout and health effects of the healthcare staff working in a tertiary hospital.Material and Methods: Measurements were performed with sound meters in all three operating theatre zones during all three shifts. At the same time, the effect of noise on workers was investigated through self-completion of questionnaires during their work.Results: The results of the medical staff have shown that the workplace is noisy (59.2%) and 53.4% stated that the noise is disturbing. The majority of physicians (70%), in terms of their health effects due to noise, said they were not significantly affected, with the exception of anxiety and discomfort (40%). Relatively high professional burnout has proven in medical staff (75,7% high depersonalization and 48,6% emotional exhaustion) . As far as the responses of the nursing staff are concerned, 63% said that the workplace was noisy and 53.7% replied that the noise was disturbing. The nursing staff also stated that they are irritable (37,1%) and they feel stress(48,2%) and fatigue(72,2%). The professional burnout of nurses was also high (59,3% high depersonalization and 61,1% emotional exhaustion) . Statistically significant differences were found between medical and nursing staff in assessing exposure to noise and the symptoms caused by it, with nursing staff being more influenced by operating room noise (p≤0.05). Differences were also found among workers in different operational zones and specialties (p≤0.05).Conclusions: The results suggest the presence of noise pollution with impact on working performance. Noise effected  health staff  in a negative way due to specialty, different operational zone and burn out levels.

scholarly journals A Narrative Review on the Role and Safety Challenges of Frontline Medical Staff and Emerging Technologies during COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malik Hasnain
Keyword(s):  
Medical Staff ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Narrative Review ◽  
Rapid Review

<p>We have elaborated on the research on the COVID-19 epidemic with regards to the roles of frontline medical staff and emerging technologies and explained the study method, results, and discussion in detail. It will make the reader feel happy in terms of the findings of this rapid review in the prevailing COVID-19 situation. We hope that it would help enrich the readers' knowledge. </p>

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