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Addiction Psychiatry 2018 Journal of Addiction Research & Therapy
ISSN: 2155-6105 Page 57
August 13-14, 2018
Madrid, Spain
8th International Conference on
Addiction Psychiatry
Many emergency personnel experience the death of a patient
as inherent part of their job. When faced with death, we all
react and process our feelings and emotions differently. Some
can return to work as if they did not face death and for others, they
experience turmoil of emotions and if they do not work through
and process those feelings, they could develop critical incident
stress symptoms. The daily incidents that multi-disciplinary
teams confront can have profound and lasting impact on these
people. Some evidence shows that when these people do not
receive situational support after experiencing stress in the
work setting they are not able to easily process the experience.
Debriefing takes time and one cannot always get the same team
available at the same time and at the same place within 24 hours
after the unexpected death of a patient thus leading to no form of
debriefing. We want to focus on how the multi-disciplinary teams
experience the situation by means of the post-death pause.
Describing the experience of the multi-disciplinary team after
the implementation of the post-death pause in a private level II
trauma centre in South Africa
Rochelle Lee 1, Lizanne van Rooyen2, René Grobler2 and Carine Prinsloo1
1Netcare Unitas Hospital, South Africa
2Netcare Milpark Hospital, South Africa
J Addict Res Ther 2018, Volume 9
DOI: 10.4172/2155-6105-C2-040