Women are less likely to receive cardiac resuscitation massage

In the event of a cardiac crisis in a public space, the women They are less likely to receive a cardiac massage from a witness than men, which causes a higher percentage of deaths among those affected, research indicated this Monday.

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation combines mouth-to-mouth breathing with chest compressions to pump blood to the brain in people whose heart has stopped beating until medical teams arrive.

As part of research not yet reviewed by other professionals, which will be presented at a conference in Spain, Canadian doctors analyzed the treatment of almost 40,000 patients admitted to the hospital with cardiac arrest in the United States and Canada.

In total, a 54% of the patients received a cardiac massage from a witness, according to the investigation.

But in cardiac arrests that occur in a public place, such as the street, only one 61% of women received a massage, against a 68% Men’s.

This difference “mortality of women increases after a heart attack”Alexis Cournoyer, an emergency doctor at Montreal’s Sacré-Coeur hospital, who conducted the study, told AFP.

The researchers theorize two possible causes for this difference: one is that witnesses are embarrassed to touch a woman’s breast without consent.

Another is that the population does not recognize female victims of a heart attack, since these incidents are often erroneously linked only to the male population.

Cardiac arrests are one of the main causes of mortality in the world. Just a 10% of people who suffer it outside of a hospital survive, the researchers said.

Source: AFP