Had a moment in class yesterday that stuck with me. We spend a lot of time in CPR training teaching people what to do with their hands. We don't spend nearly enough time preparing them for what's happening in their head. In a class yesterday, someone brought up the psychology of performing CPR, and it stopped the room. Because the truth is: most people who witness a cardiac emergency and don't act aren't indifferent. They're frozen. Bystander paralysis is real. Research tells us that the pres...

Psychological Effects of Performing CPR