Brazilian intensivists: exhausted, but (still) happy with their choice? - Critical Care Science (CCS)

Burnout syndrome has gained increasing attention since the term was coined by Freudenberger in 1974.⁽⁾ It is amazing that the first systematic description of occupational physical or mental burnout was provided more than two centuries after the modern contextualization of work.⁽⁾ It is even more astonishing that more than 40 years have passed without any studies assessing the actual implications of burnout syndrome on the work dynamics in healthcare and the outcomes on patient care. Despite a significant increase in the number of studies on this subject that have been published in the last five years (), the number is still very small compared to studies of other occupational diseases (not exceeding approximately 70 articles on the topic per year).

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