I think that's part of it, definitely, and I think the other part is that you just can't realistically expect people that have never been in a high stress situation like that to react appropriately — it's like telling people how to do a perfect backstroke on land for an hour and then expecting that you can just drop them into the ocean and they'll swim.
There's really just nothing like actually doing CPR (much less on a person you know) that prepares you for it, no matter how much instruction you have, I think.
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Date: 2012-03-02 05:26 am (UTC)There's really just nothing like actually doing CPR (much less on a person you know) that prepares you for it, no matter how much instruction you have, I think.