ea0090p247 | Thyroid | ECE2023
Idrees Sarrah
, Mayilvaganan Sabaretnam
, Bhargav Panchangam Ramakanth
, Chan Gyan
, Mishra Anjali
, Agarwal Gaurav
Introduction: Noise in the operating room is an ongoing problem and impacts the outcome of surgery. Noise as stressor can produce a startle reaction and activate fight or flight response of the autonomic and endocrine system. The psychobiology of the stress as assessed by salivary cortisol level is a sensitive measure of allostatic load. In this study, we correlated salivary cortisol levels of the surgical team with noise measurement and also whether the noise in OR subjective...