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 ...

First responders in Nassau County who save lives every day just got some help. And it’s already helping them save more lives. Nassau ambulances have new technology on board that, at a crucial moment, ...

HARRISONVILLE, Mo. — Each year in the United States, 350,000 people go into cardiac arrest outside of the hospital. According to the American Heart Association, 90 percent of those people die.

MINEOLA, Long Island (WABC) -- A new device to help save lives is coming to Nassau County. The Defibtech Lifeline Automated Chest Compression Device will go into every police department ambulance 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 ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY, Mo. (KFVS) - New devices at fire departments in Cape Girardeau County could help you and your loved ones survive cardiac arrest. “In the short time that we’ve had them in the ...

PETAL, Miss. (WDAM) - The Macedonia Volunteer Fire Department receives new equipment that they hope will change the game for their department and their residents. The department recently received a ...

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, ...

New research has found that a type of automatic chest compression is more effective to carry out CPR in space than the ‘handstand method’ that is currently recommended in emergency protocols for ...

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 ...

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