Women of child-bearing age have better inhospital cardiac arrest survival outcomes than do equal-aged men

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1254-1260

  Topjian, Alexis A ^a   Localio, A Russell ^a   Berg, Robert A ^a   Alessandrini, Evaline A ^b   Meaney, Peter A ^a   Pepe, Paul E ^c   Larkin, G Luke ^d   Peberdy, Mary Ann ^e   Becker, Lance B ^a   Nadkarni, Vinay M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Gender; Heart arrest; Outcome; Women

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESUSCITATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951620159     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181d8ca43     Document Type: Article

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