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Getting the Emotions Out of the Patient's Head
The best way to deescalate your emotional state is to say what you're feeling at that moment and be given time. You know, if anything explicitly dangerous happened, you're going to have to discuss it in that moment. But you could save that for the end with just a quick hit. Things that I saw that we could talk about include the emotional reaction to the nurse, the physical technique of finding the sepclavian without ultrasound. And then also, how do you maintain a sterile field when you're really worked up and things aren't going well? What of those sound best to you? What are most important to you?