Does female sex impact the likelihood of bystander resuscitation and survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest compared to male sex?
Women experience lower rates of bystander resuscitation and survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest compared to men, partly driven by lower rates of shockable initial rhythms.
In case of OHCA, women are less often resuscitated by bystanders than men. When resuscitation is attempted, women have lower survival rates at each successive stage of care. These sex gaps are likely explained by lower rate of SIR in women, which can only partly be explained by resuscitation characteristics.
Blom et al. (Thu,) studied this question.