Women less likely to receive basic life support for cardiac arrest from public

Women are less likely to receive basic life support for cardiac arrest from members of the public then men, according to the European Society of Cardiology. “There is a misconception that women don’t have heart problems so they don’t get as much help from the public and they are not treated the same by doctors,” said Dr Nicole Karam, an interventional cardiologist at the European Hospital Georges Pompidou in Paris, France. The study included all 11 420 patients who had an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Paris and the surrounding suburbs between 2011 and 2014. Data on how the patients were