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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...

LITTLE FALLS — The Center for Resuscitation Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School recently donated an automated CPR device — known as LUCAS — to the Morrison County Sheriff’s Office ...

NEW BEDFORD — You may never have heard of it, but it's a device that just might save your life some day. It's called the LUCAS device, and patrons in a popular New Bedford restaurant recently saw it ...

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 ...

PUTNEY — It may be a few years away, but a new device with a long history of development could replace the AEDs that are ubiquitously attached to walls around the United States. Norman Paradis, of ...

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-CPR may improve rate of survival to hospital over traditional C-CPR in selected settings and warrant further studies of this device, particularly examining the potential utility in rural settings.