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Yet the potential for emotional trauma and distress may be significant. One U.S. study in 2015 showed that as many as 28 percent of internal medicine residents involved in performing CPR experienced PTSD symptoms, suggesting even professionals face difficulties coping.
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Read More »On an otherwise typical Thursday afternoon in the fall of 2016, Heather Johnson saw a young man collapse on the floor at her London, Ont., gym. Johnson was a 21-year-old university student at the time, and she had previously worked as a lifeguard. She reacted immediately: running to the victim’s side, feeling for a pulse and quickly performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Her training paid off, and the young man had been successfully resuscitated when Emergency Medical Services arrived (another bystander had called 911). But despite the positive outcome Johnson found her memories of the experience to be unsettling and dark. She developed difficulties sleeping and found it hard to concentrate on school work. “I started having nightmares, just seeing his face,” she says. A few days after the incident, doctors diagnosed her with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She says at no time during her CPR training was she made aware that saving someone else’s life could carry risks to her own. Johnson is not alone. Professionals in the resuscitation field say there is a growing need to ensure that people understand the emotional risks of performing CPR, and that they are guided to professional help in case they develop emotional distress. “We need to be more tuned into supporting lay rescuers,” says Katie Dainty, a resuscitation researcher who founded the Bystander Support Network in 2017 to help people struggling with the after-effects of an intervention. “We need to let them know that they’re heroes and that we can get them help if they need it.”
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Read More »For the most part, emergency response teams have few or no protocols on how to support lay-responders. Nor do the main CPR curriculums used in Canada, which make no more than a passing reference to the potential for any after-the-act distress. Currently, the Canadian Red Cross, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and St. John Ambulance develop curriculums for instructors, and each organization certifies more than 500,000 people in CPR each year. But there are nascent signs of a shift in how CPR is taught. Don Marentette, national manager of first aid programs at the Canadian Red Cross, says his organization is working on adding a section to its CPR curriculum on the risks of developing emotional distress, though he was unable to offer a firm timeline as to when the changes would be implemented. He says that currently instructors can talk about PTSD or emotional distress in their classrooms if they want to, but there has been some resistance to altering the curriculum from instructors who take a “legacy approach” to CPR teaching. “It’s also perhaps due to the fact that many instructors are not prepared to have the conversation about distress and PTSD,” he adds. The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada is also working on changing its CPR curriculum, and plans to incorporate an educational component on emotional trauma following CPR by the fall of 2019. Shelley Parker, senior manager of Resuscitation Services, Design, and Delivery at Heart & Stroke, acknowledges that the emphasis has always been on getting more people engaged with CPR training. “I think [changing the curriculum] was seen somewhat as detrimental to getting the public trained or getting them to step in,” says Parker. “We’ve all worked to get the public more engaged with responding to cardiac arrests, and we focused so much on that aspect of it.” Despite the “legacy” approach that some take to teaching CPR, changing the curriculum to include a section on PTSD would be well-received by many instructors. “It would be a really great addition,” says Ashkon Pourheidary, director of Coast2Coast First Aid and Aquatics. His organization’s instructors follow the Canadian Red Cross curriculum, and most are hesitant, he says, to steer away from the prescribed course material.
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