title: [Reactions to cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a study on emotions and communication behavior of the resuscitating physician].
abstract: Reactions of 20 physicians to cardiopulmonary resuscitation were examined by describing their emotions and communication in over 260 situations of resuscitation. All actions of physicians being helpful for the relatives in their grief change physicians' emotions after resuscitation. Though denial helps the physicians in confrontation with the relatives, it also seems to impair their emotional coping. Coping strategies of physicians are quite different: Young physicians show a pattern of emotional denial and activity in their resuscitation behaviour. Doctors being more experienced tend to deny less in this sense. Physicians with recent loss seem to cope very little emotionally. Active resuscitation behaviour results after resuscitation in being relieved for a short time, but coping is impaired because of the activity pattern. Speaking after resuscitation seems to improve coping.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Universität Kiel.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Black
authors.forename: V E
authors.initials: VE
authors.lastname: Kollenbaum
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D003643:Death; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D012151:Resuscitation
vernacular_title: Reaktionen auf die kardiopulmonale Reanimation: eine Untersuchung über Emotionen und Kommunikationsverhalten reanimierender Arzte.