Too stressed to think? A scoping review of the literature for healthcare educators utilising high acuity clinical scenarios.

Too stressed to think? A scoping review of the literature for healthcare educators utilising high acuity clinical scenarios.

The practise of paramedicine can be highly stressful particularly where urgent lifesaving decisions need to be made. Traditionally, educators have adopted the approach of placing students in simulated stressful situations as a way of learning to cope with these challenges. It is unclear from the literature whether traditional stress inoculation enhances or hinders learning. This scoping review aims to identify and examine both the peer-reviewed and grey literature reporting physiological stress responses to high-acuity scenarios in paramedicine and cognate healthcare disciplines.