Emotional influences on recruitment and intervention delivery (TDF emotion)
In relation to the fact that pre-hospital environments were often described as stressful, many participants indicated that they were worried about conducting the REBOA procedure and managing the (often chaotic) situation appropriately, particularly generating the correct decisions in uncertain and unpredictable environments. When probed about randomising a patient to a future pre-hospital trial of REBOA, many participants indicated that the emotional burden related to decision-making and the conduct of the intervention would remain:…It’s difficult to take away that human side when you… and certainly some of these patients have a high conscious level initially and they just… the conscious level just gets worse and worse and you’ve kind of made that emotional contact. Paramedic, participant 5.