Jane Wigginton, M.D.
Dr. Wigginton attended the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, Texas, and then completed her Emergency Medicine residency at UT Southwestern and the affiliated Parkland Health & Hospital System. She joined the faculty in 2000 and currently serves as Assistant Professor of Surgery and Assistant EMS Medical Director for Resuscitation Research, Dallas Area BioTel (EMS) System. Dr. Wigginton's research has addressed contoversial resuscitation/ethical issues such as the salvageability of patients with cardiac arrest presenting with pulseless electrical activity and asystole. Other studies have demonstrated counterintuitive outcomes or unique findings regarding out-of-hospital resuscitation that have challenged conventional wisdom. One recent paper demonstrated better outcomes with manual compression by EMS personnel versus mechanical (Thumper) compressions. Her highly notable study on gender related differences in the presentation and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests found that, in contrast to women with myocardial infarction and other related coronary artery syndromes women had a better outcome following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Dr. Wigginton, herself a mother of six, has a strong interest in injury prevention and public access to defibrillation. She recently participated in the CPR and automated defibrillation training of the U.S. Surgeon General and three dozen senior staff members at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services in Washington, D.C., and is now focusing efforts on the use of alternative CPR devices such as the Active Compression-Decompression CPR device. |