Background:Anesthesiology may be stressful and most anesthesiologists develop mechanisms for coping. However, inexperienced trainee anesthesiologists seem to be vulnerable. We studied stress perception and job burnout in trainee anesthesiologists.Methods:Responses to perceived stress scale (PSS) and Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) were evaluated in 159 trainee anesthesiologists.Results:In our results, when perceived stress was increased, emotional exhaustion and depersonalization increased but personal accomplishment decreased, as expected. Perceived stress was very high in the early years of training. There was a negative correlation between age and emotional exhaustion and depersonalization, but positive correlation with personal accomplishment. Female anesthesiologists had higher personal accomplishment, but lower depersonalization points than male anesthesiologists in our study. There was no statistical association between marital status, PSS, and MBI; ≥2 children group had a significant high personal accomplishment but low depersonalization and emotional exhaustion scores. Line regression analysis showed a statistically significant relationship between PSS and emotional exhaustion and between age and depersonalization.Conclusions:Social factors such as gender and number of children affect the work life of our trainees.

Objective: In this study, we aimed to analyze the demographic features of the victims of workplace accidents admitted to a teaching and research hospital. The life-threatening content of the forensic reports, the use of simple medical interventions and outcomes in the emergency department were evaluated. Material and Methods: This study retrospectively evaluated patients admitted to the emergency department who had been in a workplace accident from All workplace accidents were included in this study. Categorical measurements obtained were summarized as a number and numerical measurements were summarized as the mean and standard deviation. Data were statistically analyzed using SPSS version 16.0. Results: Of the 406 patients, 96.55% were male and 3.45% were female. The mean age of the patients was 32.80 years. Most of the workplace accidents occurred in December 2010. The most frequent injuries were limb injuries (62%). 73.65% of patients were discharged after evaluation in the emergency department. The forensic reports indicated that 14.53% of patients had lifethreatening injuries and 28.57% were not resolved with simple medical intervention. Conclusion: Work-related accidents occur mostly in younger men. Most frequently, patients were discharged from the emergency department after evaluation. Clinicians often decide abolishing with simple medical intervention according to staying in hospital. Cases of injury to more than one organ system were often life-threatening. (JAEM 2013; 12: 19-23)

Limited data are available for real-world impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on chronic pain patients. This study aimed to evaluate pain intensity, depression, and anxiety status in chronic pain patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 110 patients with chronic pain participated on a voluntary basis in this questionnaire survey. The questionnaire form elicited information on sociodemographic characteristics and prepandemic and pandemic data on analgesic need, access to medication, visual analog scale (VAS) pain, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) scores. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in increased levels of depression (74.5%), anxiety (66.4%), increase in analgesic need (60%), and limited access to analgesic drugs (40.0%). In conclusion, our findings revealed significant increase in VAS pain intensity, BDI, and BAI scores during the COVID-19 pandemic compared with prepandemic period among chronic pain patients, particularly for patients with increased need of analgesics during pandemic.

With the industrial revolution, mechanization has affected nearly all aspects of working life, and mass production is associated with a number of problems. One major problem is occupational accidents. Emergency services are the first point of care for occupational accidents, and these cases have special status in terms of the social and legal impact of medical care in the emergency department. In this review, we tried to examine the special status of occupational accidents in the organization of emergency services. (JAEM 2012; 11: 227-37)

The TDF patch is a good choice for cancer pain treatment for both adult and geriatric patients. Since it was observed that the incidence of side effects was higher in the geriatric patients, they should be treated more carefully.