ReviewAnnals of intensive care2022
Sex and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival: a systematic review.
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- The missing sex and gender lens in artificial-intelligence-enabled resuscitation.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Characteristics and outcomes of younger adults with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitated with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: a nationwide study.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2026Observational
- Resuscitation needs justice: an intersectional view on justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.Resuscitation plus · 2026Article
- Vascular access in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with non-shockable rhythms-a retrospective observational study of the intravenous versus intraosseous approach: the VANISH study.Frontiers in public health · 2026Observational
- Telitacicept for systemic lupus erythematosus: protocol of a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Sex Differences in In-Hospital Mortality Among Patients Receiving Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation and Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: A Propensity Score-Matched Analysis.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Sex differences in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.European heart journal open · 2025Article
- Considerations on witnessed status, bystander CPR, and statistical methods in OHCA defibrillation dose-outcome study.Resuscitation plus · 2025Article
- Association between bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation initiation and patient's sex: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Resuscitation plus · 2025Review
- Sex disparities in ICU care and outcomes after cardiac arrest: a Swiss nationwide analysis.Critical care (London, England) · 2025Article
- Differential Effects of Targeted Temperature Management on Sex-Dependent Outcomes After Experimental Asphyxial Cardiac Arrest.Therapeutic hypothermia and temperature management · 2024Article
- Sex differences in extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: nationwide multicenter retrospective study in Japan.Critical care (London, England) · 2024Article
- Sex-specific health-related quality of life in survivors of cardiac arrest.Resuscitation plus · 2024Review
- Sex Disparities in Resuscitation Quality Following Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2024Article
- Epidemiology and outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Salt Lake City: Sex-based investigations.Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open · 2024Article
- Intentional interruptions during compression only CPR: A scoping review.Resuscitation plus · 2024Article
- Sex and gender differences in intensive care medicine.Intensive care medicine · 2023Review
- Sex Difference on Neurological Outcomes and Post-Cardiac Arrest Care in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients Treated with Targeted Temperature Management: Post-Hoc Study of a Prospective, Multicenter, Observational Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
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- Gender disparities in patients undergoing extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Article
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7 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundThe literature is unresolved on whether female receive advanced cardiac life support less than do male and on whether female have a survival advantage over male after cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
methodsWe systematically searched PubMed, Embase and Web of Science databases (from inception to 23-April-2022) for papers reporting outcomes in adult male and female after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The main study outcome was the rate of adjusted survival to hospital discharge or 30 days. Secondary outcomes included unadjusted survival to hospital discharge and favourable neurological outcome.
resultsA total of 28 studies were included, involving 1,931,123 patients. Female were older than male, their cardiac arrests were less likely to be witnessed and less likely to present with a shockable rhythm. Unadjusted analysis showed that females had a lower likelihood of survival than males (OR 0.68 [0.62-0.74], I
conclusionsThe adjusted rate of survival to hospital discharge/30 days was similar for male and female despite an initial seeming survival advantage for male. The validity of this finding is limited by substantial heterogeneity despite in-depth investigation of its causes, which raises concerns regarding latent inequalities in some reports nonetheless. Further study on this topic may require inclusion of factors not reported in the Utstein template and in-depth analysis of decision-making processes.
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