Improved technology that automatically does CPR will take some of the burden off first responders and likely save lives. The device, called LUCAS 3, is portable and consists of a compression unit that ...

It may be a few years away, but a new device with a long history of development could replace the AEDs that are ubiquitously ...

MARSHFIELD, Wis. (WSAW) - Marshfield Fire Department Deputy Chief Steve Bakos says in 2023, they confirmed 11 patients who had CPR performed, actually got a pulse back from crews and then walked out ...

McLaren Central Michigan, part of McLaren Health Care, has received a grant to help with the purchase of potentially lifesaving automated CPR equipment. Housed and used in the emergency department, ...

CLINTON, Iowa (KWQC) - The Clinton Fire Department (CFD) has received a $47,181 grant from the 2023 Assistance to Firefighters Grant program to purchase three LUCAS Chest Compression units, in ...

Performing CPR involves pressing down on the chest of someone in cardiac arrest 100 to 120 times per minute. It can be exhausting, as well as unnerving. That explains why some local Emergency Medical ...

The Augusta Fire Department recently unveiled its new LUCAS CPR devices, acquired through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant in Fall 2023. City leadership convened for a special presentation on the ...

TWIN FALLS — Administering CPR can be physically demanding when having to give it over large stretches, but the life-saving emergency procedure will get easier for some local first responders as they ...

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A redesigned load cell allowed the AutoPulse to adjust to a patient's body for optimal CPR treatment. For victims of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), even the best EMTs may not be able to sustain ...

A new portable CPR device has been in use for a few weeks in Howard County, and it already has helped save the life of an elderly woman whose heart stopped in a nursing home, paramedics say. Howard ...