Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Emergency Medicine Residents: A Role for Moral Injury?

We read with interest the perspective piece on posttraumatic stress disorder in emergency medicine residents in the United States.1 The addition of the new exposure criteria to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition,2 those of witnessing events or being exposed to aversive details of these traumatic events, would lead us to consider many emergency medicine and out-of-hospital care practitioners to be potentially at risk of posttraumatic stress disorder.

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