Heart rate and heart rate variability as indirect markers of surgeons' intraoperative stress

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 165-174

  Rieger, Annika ^a   Stoll, Regina ^a   Kreuzfeld, Steffi ^a   Behrens, Kristin ^a   Weippert, Matthias ^a  

^a ROSTOCK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ambulatory assessment; Heart rate; Heart rate variability; Intraoperative stress; State Trait Anxiety Inventory; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP; WORKLOAD;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SLEEP; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WORKLOAD;

EID: 84898598580     PISSN: 03400131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00420-013-0847-z     Document Type: Article

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