Lack of Sleep and its Repercussion on Rotating Medical Interns at the Pablo Arturo Suarez General Hospital 2017 and 2018

• Published in: Health science journal 2022-01, Vol.16, p.1-5
• Main Authors: Celi, Elias, Delgado, Juan Esteban Tafur, Tello, Aarón Alberto Guzman, Reyna, Jessica Nicole Ordóñez, Carvajal, María Belén Vega, Mora, Cristhian Enrique Sanipatin, Cevallos, Luis Miguel Terán, Fabara, Jorge
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Hospitals; Internships; Patients; Pediatrics; Physicians; Questionnaires; Sleep
• ISSN: 1791-809X; 1791-809X
• DOI: 10.36648/1791-809X.16.S7.956

According to the survey, the services where a greater affection was evidenced by lack of sleep were Neonatology with 42%, Emergency in 27% and Surgery in 24% and Internal Medicine in 6%. Sweets: 27%, Music: 24%, Coffee: 24%, Drinks and stimulants other than coffee: 18%, medicine 3%, nothing: 3%; 48% answered that the various methods used partially help, 38.7% mentioned that they do not help and 12% answered that they do help Conclusions: Lack of sleep and with it the lack of rest in rotating inmates affects their health, but also their action and behavior with patients. Keywords: Lack of sleep; Impact; Internal doctors; Rotation Introduction There is no doubt that scenarios such as intensive care, emergency, pediatrics, among others, are places where the dynamics, articulation and development of the operating personnel of the Pablo Arturo Suárez General Hospital is highly mobile, but above all, highly concentrated, so that the response that doctors, nurses, assistants, interns must give must be timely, scientific and, of course, affable; To this extent, these interventions, either due to the numerical product of the demand and its quality, require that the inmates and other medical personnel be in optimal physical, psychological and cognitive conditions. In the case of the students who carry out the rotating internship at the Pablo Arturo Suárez General Hospital, which is practically identical to what happens in the other hospitals and public care centers in the country-, they are subjected to long hours of work, especially all those that compromise the guards whose days go from 24 to 28 hours (not infrequently they extend a couple of hours more) of service in which they put in tension the knowledge acquired in the classroom, in addition, they incorporate their own knowledge of the daily life of a hospital, whether in objective aspects such as the scientific treatment of patients, clinical and medical procedures; as well as in subjective aspects that go from the interaction with administrative and operational personnel of the Hospital, the same that is not necessarily affable, cordial, on the contrary, they exercise a behavioral, vertical relationship, which often acquires aggressive, imperative and deeply subjective characteristics., which regularly, instead of forming, deform the future doctor's personality.