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    "pk": 13740,
    "title": "Emergency Medicine Residents Experience Acute Stress While Working in the Emergency Department",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Introduction:\n Acute stress may impair cognitive performance and multitasking, both vital in the practice of emergency medicine (EM). Previous research has demonstrated that board-certified emergency physicians experience physiologic stress while working clinically. We sought to determine whether EM residents have a similar stress response, and hypothesized that residents experience acute stress while working clinically.\nMethods:\n We performed a prospective observational study of physiologic stress including heart rate (HR), heart rate variability (HRV), and subjective stress in EM residents during clinical shifts in the emergency department. HR and HRV were measured via 3-lead Holter monitors and compared to baseline data obtained during weekly educational didactics. Subjective stress was assessed before and after clinical shifts via a Likert-scale questionnaire and written comments.\nResults:\n We enrolled 21 residents and acquired data from 40 shifts. Residents experienced an increase in mean HR of eight beats per minute (P < 0.001) and decrease in HRV of 53.9 milliseconds (P = 0.005) while working clinically. Subjective stress increased during clinical work(P <0.001). HRV was negatively correlated with subjective stress, but this did not reach statistical significance (P = 0.09).\nConclusion:\n EM residents experience acute subjective and physiologic stress while working clinically. HR, HRV, and self-reported stress are feasible indicators to assess the acute stress response during residency training. These findings should be studied in a larger, more diverse cohort of residents and efforts made to identify characteristics that contribute to acute stress and to elicit targeted educational interventions to mitigate the acute stress response.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": {
        "name": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
        "short_name": "CC BY 4.0",
        "text": "Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.",
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "residency training"
        },
        {
            "word": "Stress"
        },
        {
            "word": "stress response"
        },
        {
            "word": "Graduate Medical Education"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Education Special Issue - Original Research (Limit 3500 words)",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2fz4p46s",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Adam",
            "middle_name": "J.",
            "last_name": "Janicki",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Stephanie",
            "middle_name": "O.",
            "last_name": "Frisch",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pittsburgh, School of Nursing, Department of Acute and Tertiary Care, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "P.",
            "middle_name": "Daniel",
            "last_name": "Patterson",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Aaron",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Brown",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania",
            "department": "None"
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Adam",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Frisch",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania",
            "department": "None"
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2020-04-10T01:34:46+05:30",
    "date_accepted": "2020-04-10T01:34:46+05:30",
    "date_published": "2020-12-12T10:30:30+05:30",
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}