Lowercase PTSD: Why emergency staff are still hypervigilant

In the emergency department, you learn to function under pressure. You compartmentalize. You prioritize. You override your own nervous system in order to keep someone else alive. During COVID, that skill became oxygen. We worked in zones of four to eight critical patients, all unstable, all needing constant vigilance, or we were assigned to the

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Lowercase PTSD: Why emergency staff are still hypervigilant originally appeared in KevinMD.com.

 

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