TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Dead on the table: a theoretical expansion of the vicarious trauma that operating room clinicians experience when their patients die
JO  - Death studies
A1  - Hartley, Heather
A1  - Wright, David Kenneth
A1  - Vanderspank-Wright, Brandi
A1  - Grassau, Pamela
A1  - Murray, Mary Ann
SP  - 301
EP  - 310
VL  - 43
IS  - 5
N2  - The practice of operating room (OR) clinicians - nurses, surgeons, and anesthetists - is fundamentally about preserving life. Some patients, however, die in the OR. Clinicians are therefore vulnerable to moral and emotional trauma. In this paper, we discuss three forces that shape clinicians' moral and emotional experiences in OR care: biomedical values, normative death discourse, and socially (un)sanctioned grief. We suggest how each of these forces increases clinicians' vulnerability to feel traumatized when their patients die. We hope this discussion will stimulate clinicians and researchers to engage with social and cultural determinants of clinicians' experiences when surgical patients die.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0748-1187
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2018.1461711
ID  - ref1
ER  -