Readiness to Perform Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: An Emerging Strategy Against Sudden Cardiac Death
R. P. Nolan, PhD,
E. Wilson, PhD,
M. Shuster, MD,
B. H. Rowe, MD,
D. Stewart, MD and
S. Zambon
From the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine (R.P.N.), Faculty of Medicine, and School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada (E.W.), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada; Emergency Medicine (M.S.), Mineral Springs Hospital, Banff, Alberta, Canada; Division of Emergency Medicine (B.H.R.), Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Cambridge Memorial Hospital (D.S.), Waterloo Region Base Hospital Program, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario (S.Z.), Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Fig. 1. Psychosocial barriers and readiness to perform CPR. Percentage of subjects within Readiness groups who endorsed barriers that "would prevent (them) from performing CPR."
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