Highlights the presence of sex differences in the incidence, treatment, and survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
An out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) occurs when the heart stops maintaining its function to pump blood through the body in an out-of-hospital setting, typically due to cardiac arrhythmia. Our recent analysis of sex differences in OHCA incidence, treatment and survival in a large cohort of OHCA patients in the Netherlands demonstrated several important findings across various age groups [1].
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