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Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders

posted by martyb on Tuesday November 14 2017, @07:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the Stayin'-alive!-Stayin'-alive! dept.

takyon writes:

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)

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @09:18PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @09:18PM (#596988)

    We don't have the same litigious culture as in the USA

    You know the funny thing, we in the US aren't litigious either [theguardian.com].

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @09:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @09:33PM (#596992)

    You know the funny thing, we in the US aren't litigious either

    But you are so brave, you do everything to avoid a possible lawsuit.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by FatPhil on Wednesday November 15 2017, @05:58AM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Wednesday November 15 2017, @05:58AM (#597174) Homepage
    Article linked to is a useless fluff piece that does not numerically compare the US to any other country, and therefore does nothing to support its assertion that the US isn't more litigious than other countries.
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