Analysis of performance and stress caused by a simulation of a mass casualty incident
| Autor: | Rafael Castro Delgado, Escribano Tortosa Damian, José Luis Navarro Fernández, Nuria Pérez Alonso, Antonio Nieto Fernández-Pacheco, María Lidon López Iborra, David Armero-Barranco, Manuel Pardo Ríos, Pedro Arcos González, Laura Juguera Rodríguez, José Joaquín Cerón Madrigal |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Emergency Medical Services Disaster Planning Education Simulation training Stress level 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Stress (linguistics) Task Performance and Analysis Undergraduate student medicine Humans Mass Casualty Incidents Simulation Training General Nursing Patient Care Team 030504 nursing business.industry 030208 emergency & critical care medicine Methods observational Triage Mass-casualty incident Physical therapy Academic Training alpha-Amylases 0305 other medical science business Algorithms Stress Psychological |
| Zdroj: | Nurse education today. 62 |
| ISSN: | 1532-2793 |
| Popis: | To determine the stress that is potentially produced in professional health workers due to a mass casualty incident (MCI) simulated exercise, and its relation to prior academic training and the role played in the simulation.Observational study of stress in a MCI. For this work, two MCI drills comprised of 40 victims each were conducted. Two randomized groups of 36 students each were created: Master's Students Group (MSG) and Undergraduate Student Group (USG). The role performed by each student (triage or sectorization) was assessed. The stress level was determined by prior and subsequent measurements of alpha-amylase (αA), HR, SBP and DBP.The percentage of victims that were correctly triaged was 88.6%, 91.84% for MSG and 83.76% for the USG (p=0.004). The basal αA was 97,107.50±72,182.67IU/L and the subsequent αA was 136,195.55±90,176.46±IU/L (p0.001). The baseline HR was 78.74±14.92beats/min and the subsequent HR was 95.65±23.59beats/min (p=0.000). We found significant differences in the αA between students who performed the triage and those who performed sectorization but there were no differences between undergraduate and Masters' students.Conducting a simulated exercise caused stress in personnel involved in the MCI, with a greater impact on participants who performed triage, although it was not influenced by their prior academic level. The stress level in our case did not affect or determine the performance of acquired skills. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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