Bassoe Syndrome

The aim: Among the adverse psychological changes associated with medical work, a significant place belongs to the emotional burnout syndrome, which significantly affects a doctor's social functioning. The purpose of the study was to determine the behavioural activity types and to study the muscular sensitivity threshold of family doctors with the formed emotional burnout syndrome.

Materials and methods: We examined 83 female family doctors with diagnosed emotional burnout syndrome. The treatment was carried out with the help of the Taiji-Quan eastern wellness system.

Results: The analysis of indicators of the behavioural activity revealed before treatment in 72,5% of women in the intervention group and in 69,8% of women in the control group (p>0,05) signs of the high probability of type A behaviour. After a three-month course of treatment, the percentage of manifestations of type A behaviour in women in the intervention group decreased from 72,5% to 40,0% (p 0,05). When examining the features of muscular tone at the beginning of treatment, it was found that 69,9% of women in the intervention group and 65,1% of the control group had a high degree of muscle blocks (p>0,05). After treatment, the percentage of women with a high degree of muscle blocks decreased to 37,5% (p 0,05) in the control group.

Conclusions: The taiji-Quan treatment made it possible to significantly reduce type A behaviour and to decrease the amount of "muscle blocks".

Under the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the problem of emotional burnout syndrome among nurses working under extremely stressful conditions has become particularly acute. It is therefore necessary to examine the characteristics of emotional burnout syndrome in nurses during the COVID-19 pandemic to develop effective measures to prevent and enhance their mental health.

The study aimed to establish the features of emotional burnout syndrome and its connection with typological characteristics of the personality in nurses working with COVID-19 patients.

A total of 120 female nurses who worked with COVID-19 patients were surveyed, of whom 60 (50.0%) worked in outpatient settings along with general practitioners and 60 (50.0%) worked in the intensive care unit. The average age of the participants was 40.86±3.20 years, and the average length of medical service was 13.64±1.73 years.

A burnout syndrome of varying severity was present in 50.0%of outpatient nurses and 73.3%of intensive care nurses (OR = 2.44, 95%CI [1.16-5.16]; p <  0.05). The tension phase predominated in outpatient nurses (53.3%), and the resistance phase was more typical for intensive care nurses (63.3%).

The practice of nurses under COVID-19 pandemic conditions is characterized by the high prevalence of emotional burnout syndrome.

A new cause of POS hás been recently described: SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia. Important aspects regarding the case are presented and clarifications requested from the authors. Dr Howard B. Burchell described platypnea-orthodeoxia syndrome (POS) in 1949. Burchell´s contributions to Medicine are briefly presented as well as his career.