Sonali Munot, Janet E Bray, Julie Redfern, Adrian Bauman, Simone Marschner, Christopher Semsarian, Alan Robert Denniss, Andrew Coggins, Paul M Middleton, Garry Jennings, Blake Angell, Saurabh Kumar, Pramesh Kovoor, Matthew Vukasovic, Jason C Bendall, T Evens, Clara K Chow
PURPOSE: To assess whether bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) differed by patient sex among bystander-witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA). METHODS: This study is a retrospective analysis of paramedic-attended OHCA in New South Wales (NSW) between January 2017 to December 2019 (restricted to bystander-witnessed cases). Exclusions included OHCA in aged care, medical facilities, with advance care directives, from non-medical causes. Multivariate logistic regression examined the association of patient sex with bystander CPR...
April 27, 2024: Resuscitation