Building Interdisciplinary Research in Women’s Health/Center for Research on Women and Gender/College of Medicine (BIRCWH/CRWG/COM Program)

Project Description
Building Interdisciplinary Research in Women’s Health/Center for Research on Women and Gender/College of Medicine (BIRCWH/CRWG/COM Program) evaluates sex differences in the pre-hospital, hospital level and survival outcomes, using CARES (cardiac arrest registry to enhance survival), the largest national database of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Additionally, the HCHS/SOL database, along with the ancillary study database, Echo-Sol, are being used to establish echocardiographic strain normals in hispanics and explore prediction models using strain for incident heart failure and myocardial infarction. Finally, the study will also explore the potential use of optic nerve sheath diameters (ONSD) using bedside ocular ultrasound in cardiac arrest patients to see if ONSD can be used as a neuroprognostication tool in the post-resuscitation care of cardiac arrest patients.

Who is involved?
Principal Investigator: Pavitra Kotini-Shah, MD
Terry Vanden Hoek, MD
Martha L. Daviglus, MD, PhD
Pauline Maki, PhD
Stacie Gellar, PhD