CAMBRIDGE - There's a group of students at MIT and Harvard banding together to save lives by improving CPR training. "There is very little female representation in the curriculum and so we thought we ...
If someone’s heart suddenly stops beating, they may only have minutes to live. Doing CPR (cardiopulmonary resusciation) can increase their chances of survival. CPR makes sure blood keeps pumping, ...
Women who have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are less likely than men to receive bystander CPR and automated external defibrillator (AED) application regardless of the racial and ethnic ...
Every second counts in a cardiac arrest; yet gender disparity still shapes who receives lifesaving bystander CPR. This International Women’s Day, Magpas Air Ambulance is working to change that. In ...
Men are 45% more likely to receive bystander CPR than women, according to a 2018 study published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes . Since the study, the American Heart Association ...
Researchers found that women receive CPR less often than men, likely because people are not comfortable performing life-saving measures on female bodies Getty First aid dummy A study has shown that ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health and U.K. health policy. A third of U.K. adults are are afraid to perform life-saving cardio-pulmonary ...