Anaesthetists are thought to be at increased risk of suicide amongst the medical profession. The aims of the following guidelines are: increase awareness of suicide and associated vulnerabilities, risk factors and precipitants; to emphasise safe ways to respond to individuals in distress, both for them and for colleagues working alongside them; and to support individuals, departments and organisations in coping with a suicide.
Journal article
Anaesthesia
01/2020
75
96 - 108
anaesthetists, ideation, stress; suicidal, suicide, Anesthetists, Guidelines as Topic, Humans, Mental Disorders, Risk Factors, Stress, Psychological, Suicide, United Kingdom