Psychological Skills to Improve Emergency Care Providers’ Performance Under Stress

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 884-890

  Lauria, Michael J ^a   Gallo, Isabelle A ^b   Rush, Stephen ^c   Brooks, Jason ^d   Spiegel, Rory ^e   Weingart, Scott D ^f  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USAF   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BREATHING; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MENTAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL SKILL; RESUSCITATION; SKILL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; JOB STRESS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL STRESS; RESUSCITATION;

EID: 85018263626     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2017.03.018     Document Type: Article

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