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US · 2 hrs ago

The lifesaving case for CPR dummies with breasts

Every once in a while, I feel the urge to shout “women are not small men!” at inanimate objects. Today, that object is the flat-chested plastic torso typically used for CPR training.  Breasts, it turns out, are really the bane of every woman’s existence — the back pain, the boob jail, the running. But here’s a new one: In a public cardiac arrest, they may be the reason nobody helps you. Two years ago, an analysis of over 300,000 cardiac arrests showed that women are 14 percent less likely than…
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