Evaluation of ECG changes in dentists treating awake patients.
Twenty-eight male dentists were evaluated with 24 hour ambulatory ECG while working on awake patients. Only one of the participants showed any sign of stress induced arrhythmias after a patient fainted. The remainder of the subjects were indistinguishable from previously studied normal populations.
D000328:Adult; D003815:Dentists; D004562:Electrocardiography; D006321:Heart / Q000502:physiology*; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013312:Stress, Physiological / Q000503:physiopathology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000503:physiopathology*