Factors affecting delivery time of public access defibrillator in apartment houses Uhm Tai-Hwan1, Kim Jee-Hee2,* 1Department of Emergency Medical Services, Eulji University, Korea 2Department of Emergency Medical Services, Kangwon National University, Korea *Corresponding Author: Jee-Hee Kim Professor, Department of Emergency Medical Services, Kangwon National University, Korea Email: kjh1962@kangwon.ac.kr
Online published on 16 October, 2018. Abstract The purpose of this study was to find out factors affecting time for application of automatic external defibrillator (AED) in apartment houses. Data were drawn from managers, directors, guards, and etc. through interviews and standard multiple regression analysis was employed to verify the effect of households, number of AEDs, and locking up on the delivery time. Thirty (21.8%) under three minutes, 54 (38.6%) over eight minutes in the delivery time were revealed and households (.38, p<.001), number of AEDs (.27, p=.001) exhibited a statistically significant to the delivery time. The shorter delivery time was positively affected by smaller number of households and larger number of AEDs. Top Keywords Application, automatic external defibrillator (AED), directors, households. Top |