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Objective: To investigate application of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) measures within the golden minutes in Europe. Methods: The material was taken from the University Clinical Center of Kosovo – Emergency Centre in Pristina, during the two (2) year period (2010–2011). The collected date belong to the patients with cardiac arrest have been recorded in the patients' log book protocol at the emergency clinic. Results: During the 2010 to 2011 in the emergency center of the CUCK in Pristina have been treated a total of 269 patients with cardiac arrest, of whom 159 or 59.1% have been treated in 2010, and 110 patients or 40.9% in 2011. Of the 269 patients treated in the emergency centre, 93 or 34.6% have exited lethally in the emergency centre, and 176 or 65.4% have been transferred to other clinics. In the total number of patients with cardiac arrest, males have dominated with 186 cases, or 69.1%. The average age of patients included in the survey was 56.7 year old SD ± 16.0 years. Of the 269 patients with cardiac arrest, defibrillation has been applied for 93 or 34.6% of patients. In the outpatient settings defibrillation has been applied for 3 or 3.2% of patients. Patients were defibrillated with application of one to four shocks. Of 27 cases with who have survived cardiac arrest, none of them have suffered cardiac arrest at home, 3 or 11.1% of them have suffered cardiac arrest on the street, and 24 or 88.9% of them have suffered cardiac arrest in the hospital. 5 out of 27 patients survived have ended with neurological impairment. Cardiac arrest cases were present during all days of the week, but frequently most reported cases have been on Monday with 32.0% of cases, and on Friday with 24.5% of cases. Conclusions: All survivors from cardiac arrest have received appropriate medical assistance within 10 min from attack, which implies that if cardiac arrest occurs near an institution health care (with an opportunity to provide the emergent health care) the rate of survival is higher.

Objective: To investigate application of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) measures within the golden minutes in Europe. Methods: The collected data belong to the patients with cardiac arrest that have been recorded in patients' protocol logbook at the Emergency Clinic. During the 2010-2011 in the Emergency Center of the CUCK in Prishtina have been treated a total of 269 patients with cardiac arrest, of whom 159 or 59.1% have been treated in 2010, and 110 patients or 40.9% in 2011. Cardiac arrest cases were present during all days of the week, but most frequently cases have been reported on Monday with 32.0% of cases, and on Friday with 24.5% of cases. All patients with cardiac arrest have been treated with physiological solution. Results: In 245 or 91.1% patients adrenaline has been applied; in 64 or 23.8% amiodarone has been applied; in 12 or 4.5% cases atropine has been applied, 11 or 4.1% of cases were treated with NaHCO3; 7 or 2.6% of cases were treated with lidocaine; and 6 or 2.2% of cases were treated with dopamine. All survivors from cardiac arrest have received appropriate medical assistance within 10 minutes from attack, which implies that if cardiac arrest occurs near an health care institution (with an opportunity to provide the emergent health care) the rate of survival is higher. Conclusions: Anti-arrhythmic drugs as with vasopressors, the evidence that anti-arrhythmic drugs are of benefit in cardiac is limited. No anti-arrhythmic drug given during human cardiac arrest has been shown to increase survival to hospital discharge, although amiodarone has been shown to increase survival to hospital admission after shock-refractory VF/VT. There are no data on the use of amiodarone for shock-refractory VF/VT when single shocks are used. Despite the lack of human long-term outcome data, the balance of evidence is in favour of the use of some anti-arrhythmic drugs for the management of arrhythmias in cardiac arrest.