The average age of patients was 59±15.7 years,with higher prevalence of males, 55 (72%). Car-diogenic origin of OHCA was confirmed in 61(80.3%) patients. The VF was initially detectedin 47 (62%) patients, while the asystole was veri-fied in 29 (38%) patients. The CPR was initiatedafter 4 (1-6) minutes of OHCA and lasted for 25(19-33) minutes. Therapeutic hypothermia wasperformed with an average temperature of 33oC(32.3 - 34.1oC) to the patients who had the ave-rage value on GCS from 3 to 8. During the first24 hours following the start of hypothermia tre-atment, 11 (14.5%) patients died. An overall ICUmortality was 44.7% (34 patients).