Citation

Shinde S, Yentis SM, Asanati K, Coetzee RH, Cole-King A, Gerada C, Harding K, Hawton K, Hennessy A, Keats P, Kumar N, McGlennan A, Pappenheim K, Plunkett E, Prior K, Rowland A. Anaesthesia 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Business Transformation and Safeguarding for Fitness to Practise, General Medical Council, London, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/anae.14890

PMID

31729019

Abstract

Anaesthetists are thought to be at increased risk of suicide amongst the medical profession. The aims of the following guidelines are: increase awareness of suicide and associated vulnerabilities, risk factors and precipitants; to emphasise safe ways to respond to individuals in distress, both for them and for colleagues working alongside them; and to support individuals, departments and organisations in coping with a suicide.

© 2019 The Authors. Anaesthesia published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Association of Anaesthetists.

Language: en

Keywords

anaesthetists; ideation; stress; suicidal; suicide