This article is part of the supplement: Scandinavian Update on Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 .

Oral presentation

Performance of automated external defibrillator in moving ambulance vehicles

Kyung Woon Jeung , Jong Geun Yun, Yong Il Min and Tag Heo

Department of Emergency Medicine, Chonnam National University Hospital, Gwangju, South Korea

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from Scandinavian Update on Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009
Stavanger, Norway. 23 – 25 April 2009

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009, 17(Suppl 3):O12doi:10.1186/1757-7241-17-S3-O12

Published:	28 August 2009

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

Current resuscitation guideline recommends that automated external defibrillator (AED) should never be placed in the analysis mode during transport because the movement of the vehicle can interfere with rhythm assessment. To date, no direct comparison of the AED performance at the scene and in a moving ambulance has been made. The aim of this study was to determine the intensity of vibration in a moving ambulance and to evaluate the influence of movements during transport on AED performance.