Heart attack is another example of men getting more effective treatment due to research that is limited. Women can have very vague symptoms of a heart attack and are less likely to come in. However, research involving women is improving. Articles like this make me realize we are getting better.
I worked in medical publications for many years. The research demographics were always something like, we studied 12,487 men and 13 women who had a beating heart…
Why is this? Do they do it on purpose, or not consider the importance of studying everyone? Or do more men respond and they don't bother looking for women?
Meds tend to be tested on both genders these days, but in the past not so much and not required to update and get new data after changes were made pretty sure.
NIH has requirements in grants to document recruitment even based on proportion of ethnicity in population which is another great change.
Yes, this was a couple (a few?!! 😱) decades ago and women’s existence was rarely recognized. It is better now, but better in a way it should have been 40 years ago. We have a lot of catching up to do in women’s healthcare and research.
Amen! And then there is intersex and trans to consider as well when it comes to hormones and medicines etc and then other ethnicities as well! this is why phase IV trials are so important post approval, to capture the diversity of people.
Yeah. That is quite a fascinating phenomenon, which we will learn more about due to these changes i suspect. Do
dose smaller groups at same point in the cycle? Most dont let alone record when cycle is for ppts i suspect
Even animal work for NIH you really have to justify why you arent testing in both genders, and “because they are calmer” is not sufficient. Not sure NHMRC/ARC have same requirements (havent applied for a couple of years)
After taking a cpr class and knowing the strength you needed to really be successful even if you broke ribs - I say please just let me go I don’t want to suffer some medical emergency then live for a year in pain because my ribs are in shreds just let me go
You don’t often break ribs, except in the very old. More likely is separation of cartilage from bone. You don’t need to squash someone, just depress the ribcage 33% of their chest size.
My most recent instructor had a female dummy. He did intentionally because the data showed that women don't receive cpr at the same rate as men.
He had one man almost refuse to touch it.
I was taught in the Army that if you put your little finger (pinkie) of the lower hand on Rescusie Annie's (The mannaquin) nipple you will always get the right spot when you are being assessed - never had a correction in my technique over the years. Only real event - got puked on when opened airway
...because the one time we need you to touch our chests, suddenly no one knows what to do because of "the girls" are in the way? I honestly don't understand. Do people feel that modesty is more important than a heartbeat?
Also learning CPR on manikins who are under-weight (which is not the typical American size) puts everyone at risk. The manikins are not life-like enough.
I did EMT training in the U.S. in the 1980s and our manikins were both female and male, plus a baby. We had a "choking Charlie" and "asphyxiating Annie" for Heimlich and mouth-to-mouth, I don't remember names for the CPR manikins, though.
U.S. Red Cross website still has both genders for sale.
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NIH has requirements in grants to document recruitment even based on proportion of ethnicity in population which is another great change.
dose smaller groups at same point in the cycle? Most dont let alone record when cycle is for ppts i suspect
The word is spelt correctly. It’s also spelled correctly.
manikin = more anatomically correct used for medical purposes
As a side though, it's weird seeing manikin spelled like something out of Star Wars, instead of the francophone mannequin
(Obviously I've taken the wrong aspect of this serious story to be outraged about, but for the love of god...)
https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-m
He had one man almost refuse to touch it.
https://www.livescience.com/cpr-doll-resusci-annie-face.html
U.S. Red Cross website still has both genders for sale.
https://www.redcross.org/store/training-supplies/manikins-and-lung-bags/adult-manikins
This article surveyed the global market, I'm surprised that it would be lacking.