Name: You Got Stress? Here's How ER Professionals Deal With It
Uploaded: 2020-03-27T18:30:57.000Z
Duration: 32 min 47 s
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Here you are like the magic didn't work this time.

Perhaps don't even want to know Will touch us.

Will make us think will break through a shell 88 a year on Father.

See him come to you like this about my day.

When something does get through, a lot of us tend to push it down, block it out.

But then there's no lack of stress And what we do.

Sometimes we can feel inspired by our own power because we save lives.

And sometimes we can be demoralized by our own powerlessness.

Because we don't save lives, we lose lives.

Berg, a psychiatrist, a consultant here in Detroit, receiving on a professor at Michigan State University.

He knows a lot about the emotional impact of stress and trauma on victim and care giver like burnout is a chronic condition, or at least it's caused by having been placed in a situation of often of relentless responsibility.

And is, there are certain institutions in which people seem to have more of this.

People who are prison workers, people who work in school systems, people who work in hospitals.

We've all felt the pressure of that responsibility, whether we're fresh out of school or veterans back.

He's vice chief of emergency medicine at Detroit receiving hospital, and he has the overnight shift tonight.

He's been up all day, and he knows it's going to be a long 12 hours before he gets to go home again.

It's It's barely 6 30 on Friday night, and the emergency department modules are already filling up at a few codes.

A few complicated cases and the adrenaline can really start pumping.

It may help make the night go faster, but can leave you exhausted by morning.

Sweeney's been on the front line long enough to have learned to deal with the pressure and to have helped some of the rest of us do the same.

I think he starts a shift with the briefing.

Thes cases are all his responsibility now, at least till morning.

Yeah, but on this party and he actually had our way.

So can the responsibility away those decisions.

When it gets too much for too long, the result can be burnout.

We all know the symptoms so we don't talk about it Much.

Feelings of helplessness, demoralization, avoidance, depression, exhaustion, difficulty sleeping headaches, loss of appetite.

Burnout is a cumulative process, one we only need worry about if the symptoms become chronic and start to interfere with our work and our home life.

It may look quiet here outside the operating room, but that's deceptive.

It doesn't get noisy and crowded, like in the emergency department on a busy night on it doesn't get his intimate.

Somehow it seems a little more focused more clinical, more controlled theme with Pressure's just is intense, just Israel.

It's a very intense atmosphere, you know anything goes wrong, you know a suit.

You're wrong at the right at a particular time when you're trying to sew something up, there's a tremendous pressure, and in between these pressures, you have to relax you.

You can't be keyed up and tight all the time.

And generally the tighter the situation, the harder things more You have to sort of fool around in between.

The more you have to look on the light side because otherwise you'd crank wait way big things that suddenly put him over the edge.

What's interesting is it often a tiny little straw?

Some offhand little comment are just getting the wrong result of just being given the wrong extra.

You're just picking up the wrong a piece of paper.

What's A guy can't smile once a guy can't say good morning.

Once a guy can't kid with somebody else, you gotta work.

A sense of humor probably is our best defense being able to smile or a joke.

It can relieve the tension even if it might not always seem appropriate to an outsider.

After all, we deal with so much pain and suffering that often the only way we can talk about the things that touch us that upset us is by finding the humor in them.

There's a certain rhythm to our work, especially here in the emergency department way overwhelmed at times, often for hours.

Gotta wanted to get out, goes to pull it.

But the's hold important moments never seem to last long enough.

Just when we're starting to relax, something always happens by clear.

I think it was a car versus truck leader.

Even we we've been through it 100 times anticipation, preparation, checking and double checking.

No matter how well we briefed, you, learned to expect the unexpected way.

To an outsider, it could look like it's getting out of control.

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You Got Stress? Here's How ER Professionals Deal With It

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