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Study Suggests Women Less Likely to Get CPR From Bystanders
Women are less likely than men to get CPR from a bystander and more likely to die, a new study suggests, and researchers think reluctance to touch a woman's chest might be one reason.
Only 39 percent of women suffering cardiac arrest in a public place were given CPR versus 45 percent of men, and men were 23 percent more likely to survive, the study found. It involved nearly 20,000 cases around the country and is the first to examine gender differences in receiving heart help from the public versus professional responders.
"It can be kind of daunting thinking about pushing hard and fast on the center of a woman's chest" and some people may fear they are hurting her, said Audrey Blewer, a University of Pennsylvania researcher who led the study. Rescuers also may worry about moving a woman's clothing to get better access, or touching breasts to do CPR, but doing it properly "shouldn't entail that," said another study leader, U Penn's Dr. Benjamin Abella. "You put your hands on the sternum, which is the middle of the chest. In theory, you're touching in between the breasts."
The study was discussed Sunday at an American Heart Association conference in Anaheim.
Get touchy and save women's lives.
Also at Penn Medicine and the American Heart Association. Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Other study mentioned in the AP article: Sexual Activity as a Trigger for Sudden Cardiac Arrest (DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2017.09.025) (DX)
Related study: Sex-Based Disparities in Incidence, Treatment, and Outcomes of Cardiac Arrest in the United States, 2003-2012. (DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.116.003704) (DX)
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Bot on Tuesday November 14 2017, @09:08PM (1 child)
Now, I actually don't mind provocatively dressed meatbags, but you can't have both ways. You cannot attract the males you are interested in and repel the others. You cannot be able to cry rape with the guy having to prove otherwise and then having guy eager to handle you for CPR as you were a man. Of course you can control how you dress, you cannot control how the powers that be decided to pit fem meatbags against male ones (and the other way round).
Strange that a study does not list the fear of legal troubles in the abstract while the comments instantly do. Well I don't read TFA so I can't really tell.
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @10:57PM
The fuck does any of what you said have to do with this?
Jesus you sound like a mouth breather rapist.