OBJECTIVE Despite widespread training with CPR guidelines, CPR is often poorly performed. We explore relationships between knowledge of CPR guidelines and performance (compression rate, compression depth, compression to ventilation ratio, and ventilation volume). METHODS Sixty professional EMTs were sampled at 26 randomly ordered EMS response stations from an urban system of 31 stations. A re...

BACKGROUND Obstetrician cognitive and affective traits have been identified to have relationships with their patients' perinatal outcomes. The objective was to identify relationships between obstetrician demographic and practice characteristics and physician coping, self-efficacy, anxiety and ambiguity tolerance. METHODS Obstetricians at a single institution were surveyed using 5 validated sc...