Dead on the table: a theoretical expansion of the vicarious trauma that operating room clinicians experience when their patients die - Hartley H, Wright DK, Vanderspank-Wright B, Grassau P, Murray MA.

The practice of operating room (OR) clinicians - nurses, surgeons, and anesthetists - is fundamentally about preserving life. Some patients, however, die in the OR. Clinicians are therefore vulnerable to moral and emotional trauma. In this paper, we discus...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Economics of Injury and Safety, PTSD, Injury Outcomes Source Type: news