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Hospital resuscitation teams: a review of the risks to the healthcare worker

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Intensive Care, October 2017
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Title
Hospital resuscitation teams: a review of the risks to the healthcare worker
Published in
Journal of Intensive Care, October 2017
DOI 10.1186/s40560-017-0253-9
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Authors

Stephen M. Vindigni, Juan N. Lessing, David J. Carlbom

Abstract

"Code blue" events and related resuscitation efforts involve multidisciplinary bedside teams that implement specialized interventions aimed at patient revival. Activities include performing effective chest compressions, assessing and restoring a perfusing cardiac rhythm, stabilizing the airway, and treating the underlying cause of the arrest. While the existing critical care literature has appropriately focused on the patient, there has been a dearth of information discussing the various stresses to the healthcare team. This review summarizes the available literature regarding occupational risks to medical emergency teams, characterizes these risks, offers preventive strategies to healthcare workers, and highlights further research needs. We performed a literature search of PubMed for English articles of all types (randomized controlled trials, case-control and cohort studies, case reports and series, editorials and commentaries) through September 22, 2016, discussing potential occupational hazards during resuscitation scenarios. Of the 6266 articles reviewed, 73 relevant articles were included. The literature search identified six potential occupational risk categories to members of the resuscitation team-infectious, electrical, musculoskeletal, chemical, irradiative, and psychological. Retrieved articles were reviewed in detail by the authors. Overall, we found there is limited evidence detailing the risks to healthcare workers performing resuscitation. We identify these risks and offer potential solutions. There are clearly numerous opportunities for further study in this field.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 73 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 8 11%
Student > Postgraduate 7 10%
Other 6 8%
Researcher 6 8%
Student > Bachelor 6 8%
Other 13 18%
Unknown 27 37%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 17 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 16 22%
Engineering 3 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 3%
Unspecified 2 3%
Other 3 4%
Unknown 30 41%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 January 2023.
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#2,334,107
of 23,565,002 outputs
Outputs from Journal of Intensive Care
#115
of 528 outputs
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#46,779
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Outputs of similar age from Journal of Intensive Care
#2
of 9 outputs
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