The parameters of heart rate variations were examined in emergency care doctors that demonstrated the initial signs of defensive psychological burnout syndrome related to their professional activity. These parameters were compared within each of two groups with different individual typological features. The differences in the heart rate variability parameters were revealed between the examinees that were at the compensation or alarm stages of the burnout syndrome.
Emergency medical professionals as an object of physiological investigation took part in this study. Important changes in heart rate variability during “burnout” syndrome stages were postulated. Various possible mechanisms of disturbances in central-peripheral relationship during “burnout” syndrome development are discussed.
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