Open AccessBio-psycho-social factors with occupational risk in Anesthesy and Intensive Care staff
Author(s) -
Rodica Eugenia Sîrghie,
Bucureşti Spitalul Clinic de Urgenţă pentru Copii „Marie S. Curie“,
Ioan Bradu Iamandescu,
Bucureşti Universitatea de Medicină și Farmacie „Carol Davila“
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
romanian medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2069-606X
pISSN - 1220-5478
DOI - 10.37897/rmj.2015.3.10
Subject(s) - burnout , anxiety , distress , occupational stress , occupational burnout , medicine , stressor , personality , emotional exhaustion , intensive care , psychiatry , depression (economics) , psychology , clinical psychology , intensive care medicine , social psychology , economics , macroeconomics
Profesional stress affects, among physicians, those who practise some medical specialities as oncology, neurosurgery, emergency medicine etc. and especially physicians of anesthesy intensive care units (AIC). Literature data concerning activity of AIC professionals evidentiate the high frequency of burnout syndrome, which may be considered as a first stage of a lot of troubles like behavioral, psychosomatic and psychiatrical ones. Daily distress encountered in AIC physicians and nurses is provoked mainly by the occupational pressure which cumulates the effects of many stressors, they are specific for this profession: overload (intensive and prolonged work – physically and psychically demanding, limited rest and sleep), high emotional tension (working with patients who are at the limit of life, time pressure, danger of severe drugs intolerance etc.), and some strong relational difficulties. These psycho-social stressors are not enough compensated during the recuperation period and act also in an aggravating manner on the frail personality wich is predisposed to anxiety, depression and psychosomatic pathology. After one presentation of general occupational distress, authors have synthesized the causes of burnout syndrome – specific for the AIC unities – and suggested the opportunity for a professional selection in the candidates for AIC speciality, based on psychodiagnostic evaluation.