title: Resuscitating your cardiopulmonary skills.
abstract: The emotions that prompt patients who have suffered a heart attack and their families to seek cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training are sometimes the very things that inhibit learning. Shock, denial, anger, and fear can have an adverse impact on the opportunity to master vital skills.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Biggers
mesh_terms: D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000451:nursing*; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods*; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing; D006801:Humans