Emotional intelligence, cortisol and α-amylase response to highly stressful hyper-realistic surgical simulation of a mass casualty event scenario
Lifetime exposure to stress leads to risk of suffering from cumulative detrimental physiological and psychological ailments. Due to the nature of healthcare and exposure to trauma, medical professionals are particularly susceptible to the negative impacts of high stress environments. emotional intel...
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| author | Isain Zapata Joseph Farrell Svetlana Morrell Rebecca Ryznar Tuan N. Hoang Anthony J. LaPorta |
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| description | Lifetime exposure to stress leads to risk of suffering from cumulative detrimental physiological and psychological ailments. Due to the nature of healthcare and exposure to trauma, medical professionals are particularly susceptible to the negative impacts of high stress environments. emotional intelligence plays a role in ameliorating the risk of being negatively impacted by these stressors. As such, there is special interest to develop and implement training interventions for medical personnel that would allow them to improve emotional intelligence potential with the goal of enabling them to handle stress better and mitigate burnout. A hyper-realistic surgical simulation training session, replicating the intensity of a Mass-Casualty Event scenario, was implemented to allow medical professionals to experience this in real time. Overall, the training led to increased emotional intelligence, correlating with decreased hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis and sympathetic nervous system stress biomarkers, cortisol and α-amylase. This novel training provides, at least, short-term improvements in emotional intelligence that is reflected with a physiological response. These results guide the ongoing effort to develop therapeutic tools to improve long term stress management, mitigate burnout and reduce post-traumatic stress risk after an exposure to a Mass-Casualty event scenario. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-99738f868b3445609d87cd02ff83a3ce2022-12-21T18:27:19ZengElsevierComprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology2666-49762021-02-015100031Emotional intelligence, cortisol and α-amylase response to highly stressful hyper-realistic surgical simulation of a mass casualty event scenarioIsain Zapata0Joseph Farrell1Svetlana Morrell2Rebecca Ryznar3Tuan N. Hoang4Anthony J. LaPorta5Department of Biomedical Sciences, Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Parker, CO, 80134, USA; Corresponding author.Department of Military Medicine, Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Parker, CO, 80134, USADepartment of Military Medicine, Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Parker, CO, 80134, USADepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Parker, CO, 80134, USANaval Readiness Training Command, Naval Medical Forces, Pacific, Twentynine Palms, CA, 92277, USADepartment of Military Medicine, Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Parker, CO, 80134, USA; Corresponding author.Lifetime exposure to stress leads to risk of suffering from cumulative detrimental physiological and psychological ailments. Due to the nature of healthcare and exposure to trauma, medical professionals are particularly susceptible to the negative impacts of high stress environments. emotional intelligence plays a role in ameliorating the risk of being negatively impacted by these stressors. As such, there is special interest to develop and implement training interventions for medical personnel that would allow them to improve emotional intelligence potential with the goal of enabling them to handle stress better and mitigate burnout. A hyper-realistic surgical simulation training session, replicating the intensity of a Mass-Casualty Event scenario, was implemented to allow medical professionals to experience this in real time. Overall, the training led to increased emotional intelligence, correlating with decreased hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal axis and sympathetic nervous system stress biomarkers, cortisol and α-amylase. This novel training provides, at least, short-term improvements in emotional intelligence that is reflected with a physiological response. These results guide the ongoing effort to develop therapeutic tools to improve long term stress management, mitigate burnout and reduce post-traumatic stress risk after an exposure to a Mass-Casualty event scenario.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666497621000059Emotional intelligenceHPASimulationSNSStress |
| spellingShingle | Isain Zapata Joseph Farrell Svetlana Morrell Rebecca Ryznar Tuan N. Hoang Anthony J. LaPorta Emotional intelligence, cortisol and α-amylase response to highly stressful hyper-realistic surgical simulation of a mass casualty event scenario Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology Emotional intelligence HPA Simulation SNS Stress |
| title | Emotional intelligence, cortisol and α-amylase response to highly stressful hyper-realistic surgical simulation of a mass casualty event scenario |
| title_full | Emotional intelligence, cortisol and α-amylase response to highly stressful hyper-realistic surgical simulation of a mass casualty event scenario |
| title_fullStr | Emotional intelligence, cortisol and α-amylase response to highly stressful hyper-realistic surgical simulation of a mass casualty event scenario |
| title_full_unstemmed | Emotional intelligence, cortisol and α-amylase response to highly stressful hyper-realistic surgical simulation of a mass casualty event scenario |
| title_short | Emotional intelligence, cortisol and α-amylase response to highly stressful hyper-realistic surgical simulation of a mass casualty event scenario |
| title_sort | emotional intelligence cortisol and α amylase response to highly stressful hyper realistic surgical simulation of a mass casualty event scenario |
| topic | Emotional intelligence HPA Simulation SNS Stress |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666497621000059 |
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