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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2017, @07:19AM (3 children)
you are not allowed to tug on anyone's backpack.
if a student ignores you, give them a bad grade and/or put that information in any recommendation letters you may write. but don't force them to interact with you in any way.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2017, @04:06PM (2 children)
Kids used to be spanked. In school. By teachers. With paddles or switches. Then that generation went on to defeat the world's most insidious, powerful military force.
But now it's more important that kids feel super safe and keep their feelings intact.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday November 15 2017, @05:35PM
Um, i was paddled and i'm a millennial (right on the edge). Paddles pretty much died in my childhood. I also fought in Iraq. I think the children of those who defeated "the world's most insidious, powerful military force" are the ones that went into parent helicopter mode and ended paddles.
>But now it's more important that kids feel super safe and keep their feelings intact.
Kids don't care about safety. It's the parents that push all that. How does that make you feel?
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(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Wednesday November 15 2017, @10:22PM
Why can't I just hit adults when I don't agree with their behavior? All that matters is outcome, so clearly violence is justified even if it's not used in self-defense.