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Anders Jonsson
Senior Lecturer at School of Health Sciences
In room: E522c
E-mail: Anders.Jonsson@hb.se
Phone: 033-4354785
Fax: 033-4354446
Signatur: AJO
Title of Dissertation
Post-traumatic stress among Swedish ambulance personnel.
Subjects
Research projects
Ambulance Safety
Ethical and existential issues on healthcare in a combat environment
To provide care in such an environment poses ethical dilemmas for medical personnel, particularly of a prioritization nature, where personnel may need to make choices between different people who are in need of care. Similarly, the requirements of defence tactics can come into conflict with medical priorities.
Is heart rate an equally accurate marker of stress as salivary cortisol?
There is evidence that an accelerated heart rate is linked to increased illness. Ambulance personnel appears to have an increased post-traumatic risk. The study "Is heart rate an equally accurate marker of stress as salivary cortisol?" tests the hypothesis that the heart rate of ambulance personnel correlates to cortisol in saliva.
The patient's experience of well-being during ambulance care