Female Physician Leadership During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Is Associated With Improved Patient Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

A recently published simulation study suggested that women are inferior leaders of cardiopulmonary resuscitation efforts. The aim of this study was to compare female and male code leaders in regard to cardiopulmonary resuscitation outcomes in a real-world clinical setting.

Design

Retrospective cohort review.

Setting

Two academic, urban hospitals in San Diego, California.

Subjects

One-thousand eighty-two adult inpatients who suffered cardiac arrest and underwent cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

We analyzed whether physician code leader gender was independently associated with sustained return of spontaneous circulation and survival to discharge and with markers of quality cardiopulmonary re

SUBMITTER: Meier A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6298820 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature