While research into sex disparities in the provision of cardiac arrest care and patient-centered
outcomes is a growing field of resuscitation science, the perennial question remains,
once we have discovered differences or moreover, disparities, how can we remedy them?
Differences in the phenotype of female out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) versus
male OHCA have been observed, where women tend to be older in age and suffer a greater
proportion of non-shockable initial rhythms highlighting different etiologies for
their arrest. While these sex differences are well documented, recent literature has
shown a sex disparity with respect to layperson response to out of hospital cardiac
arrest. Women who suffer a witnessed OHCA receive less bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation
(bCPR) than men.
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While the disparity has been well documented, few studies have explored potential
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