Purpose : Prehospital emergency care for shockable rhythm is one of major concerns of
emergency medical services. But, in Korea, prehospital medical service systems are not yet
well established. We tried to offer one of the fundamental data to develop of these system.
Method : After application of exclusion criteria, 200 patients who had shockable rhythm
from January to December, 2008 were included in this study. Restrospective review of
Prehospital care Reports of these patients was done.
Result : Total 200 cases of shockable rhythm and prehospital arrest were analyzed. The
rates of assessment of vital signs were 89.0%, the rate of level of consiousness was 99.5%.
Just 6.0% were communicated with medical director providing the prehospital care. The
frequency of defibrillation was performed 58.5%.
Conclusion : Survival rate was higher in defibrillation group than that of nondefibrillation
group(20.5% vs 2.4%, p=0.000).