Gun violence in the U.S. frequently leads to gruesome scenes at the hospital. Medical professionals across the country often deal with gun-related injuries and work hard to preserve the patients' lives and limbs when they come in. As for who makes it out, it turns out women have a better chance of surviving these traumatic injuries.
A new study published in the Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open journal discovered that women by and large fare better in dealing with gun-related injuries than men. By looking over years of medical records, scientists found that 18.5 percent of women died due to gun-related injuries compared to 20 percent of men. Women also were less likely overall to experience complications due to their injuries; 30.5 percent needed assistance breathing compared to 32.5 percent of men, and 1 percent developed deep vein thrombosis versus 1.5 percent of men.
"We found that females have a statistically significant survival advantage after firearms-related injury compared with males, despite exhibiting a similar overall injury burden after matching," the authors wrote. "In addition, a lower need for mechanical ventilation and complication rate were detected in the female cohort of patients who had suffered a firearms-related injury."
"National data of hospitalized trauma patients demonstrate that females have lower mortality and better outcomes than males after admission for firearms-related injury," the team concluded. While the analysis didn't pinpoint any reasons why women seem to survive more gun-related confrontations, they floated some possible explanations, including that women's blood may clot faster and female hormones may strengthen the body's immune response.
More studies on the subject are needed to find definitive answers that will help everyone, regardless of gender, if they suffer a threatening firearm injury.
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