Frédéric Dutheil, Alicia Fournier, Christophe Perrier, Damien Richard, Marion Trousselard, George Mnatzaganian, Julien S Baker, Reza Bagheri, Martial Mermillod, Maelys Clinchamps, Jeannot Schmidt, Jean-Baptiste Bouillon-Minois
24-h shift (24 hS) exposed emergency physicians to a higher stress level than 14-h night shift (14 hS), with an impact spreading on several days. Catecholamines are supposed to be chronic stress biomarker. However, no study has used catecholamines to assess short-term residual stress or measured them over multiple shifts. A shift-randomized trial was conducted to study urinary catecholamines levels of 17 emergency physicians during a control day (clerical work on return from leave) and two working day (14 hS and 24 hS)...
March 27, 2024: Scientific Reports