Cross-gender CPR and language barriers in emergency care: Primary Survey August 2026

What social dynamics can be observed in the administration of bystander CPR? New research from Korea shows a reluctance to assist when the patient and bystander were of different sex. In the UK, a five year review of knife crime involving children and young people looks for trends in the background of the 145 victims who passed away in that period. From France, we have a study looking at the geographic distribution of cardiac arrest events, and to finish there is a scoping review highlighting the value of access to good translation.

• We have recognised inequalities: now we must act
• Focusing on health inequalities in emergency care
• Impact of bystander and patient sex on cardiopulmonary resuscitation provision in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
• Preinjury, injury and post-injury factors leading to death in children and young people who were victims of knife crime in England between 2019 and 2024: a review of the National Child Mortality Database
• Spatial clustering of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in northern France and its association with social deprivation: a population-based registry study
• Understanding how language barriers in the paediatric emergency care setting influences safety of care delivery: a scoping review

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