Estrés postraumático en el personal de salud frente al covid-19

Abstract

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has spread worldwide, causing the health system to collapse due to the high demand of patients, which has generated fear and work overload in health personnel, accompanied by symptoms such as "insomnia, denial, anger, and fear", triggering clinical pictures, such as post-traumatic stress, a disorder that has directly harmed health personnel due to their closer exposure to those infected. Methodology: Bibliographic review of narrative type, in which searches were made in scientific databases such as Scopus, Taylor&Francis, Web of Science, Proquest, PubMed, Science Direct, Medigraphic, Redalyc, and Scielo, pages of the Ministry of Public Health of Ecuador (MSP) and a book of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO); complying with the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Results: The results obtained after a complete reading of the bibliographic sources provided important ideas to this research, 52 articles were obtained from scientific bases, 2 pages from the MOH, and 1 book from PAHO. Conclusion: The main clinical manifestations in health personnel faced with the COVID-19 pandemic are: traumatic memories, feelings of detachment, anhedonia, hypervigilance, and insomnia, increased pressure, stress, and fear; the risk factors are work under pressure, young personnel, less work experience, and female sex, it was also found that both physicians and nurses suffer from this disorder, there are interventions such as active pause to mitigate the problems related to post-traumatic stress in health workers.