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[Burnout in anesthesiology]
Ana Rafaela Campos Sousa1, Joana Irene de Barros Mourão2
1Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Medicina, Porto, Portugal.
Background And Objectives:
Burnout is a chronic condition caused by high levels of stress and anesthesiology is a stressful medical specialty with more vulnerability to burnout. The aim of this study is to review the characteristics and impact of burnout in anesthesiology.
Contents:
In this review, the stressors and risk factors, manifestations, assessment, complications, management and prevention of burnout as well as the inconsistent research found in the state-of-art are approached.
Conclusions:
Anesthesiologists are in a high-risk group to develop burnout, with different manifestations and consequences such as suicide or medical errors. Although there is no specific treatment yet, there are a lot of helpful measures to cope this condition. Prevention is considered an important step in order to reduce the prevalence of burnout.
