Medics 'showed signs of PTSD' in early months of Covid

At least one in seven medics working in paediatric and adult critical care wards were already at risk of post-traumatic stress disorder by the start of last summer, following the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, research has found.

It also found many medics were experiencing moral distress and a sense of worry over their altered roles, with one staff nurse commenting: “I have never been so stressed in my life…I was given a patient on a ventilator and dialysis. I was so scared I would cause harm to this patient.”