Researchers from the University of Colorado surveyed people on their attitudes in the wake of the #MeToo movement. Interviewees said (among other things) that they feared being accused of inappropriate touching or sexual assault, the researchers found.
Men were twice as likely to cite this fear as a reason for not administering CPR, the researchers found.
Study lead author Sarah Perman of the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, said: 'The consequences of all of these major themes is that women will potentially receive no CPR or delays in initiation of CPR.
'While these are actual fears the public holds, it is important to realise that CPR is lifesaving and should be rendered to collapsed individuals regardless of gender, race or ethnicity.'
Administering CPR at the moment of a heart attack roughly triples a person's chances of surviving, the researchers said.
Rob Waugh is a freelance writer at Yahoo News UK
Reader Comments
Have some men become so divorced from reality, that they now claim the act of life giving CPR at the point of a life threatening event, is now a form of sexual abuse, I question if they even understand sexual abuse and all it's horrible connotations.
There is something really disturbed in a society, that has the potential for a person to sit idly by and think it is appropriate to let another suffer and possibly die, because of a stupid ideology.
Apparently, nowadays mouth to mouth is no longer a thing?
Of course, the slant to all of this is...what if this chap was a wife beater/child molester? What if his wife had been wishing for his death for years...what happens if someone saves the life of a #metoo and ends up in court? What happens if you get CPR wrong and kill a person? HFL wrote a few months back about Bush Snr jogging past him as he came out of a shop...what if he had put his foot out? (not a precise account of his words, but...).
There is a reason to flog a dead horse...it tenderises the meat. Gotta keep on keeping on [Link]
Here a [Link] to Wikipedia where we read:
You must never have held a door recently for a woman and received a torrent of abuse instead of thanks. They are over half of the college students these days, and you go into any office and look around. Men are nowhere to be seen. All that men are good for these days it seems is to go into the army and kill other men who never did them any harm, so the widows can draw their pensions. Why do you suppose the Gay Pride parades get bigger and bigger every year?
It seems that maybe we in the Northern Wastes up here are a little slow in picking up on the bad manners epidemic.
In any case, hell will freeze over before I'll withhold aid I might provide, only to watch someone then expire.
F*ck that . . .