The Tuscumbia Fire Department successfully deployed cutting-edge life-saving technology in a response that put their training and equipment to the test. The department recently acquired the LUCAS ...
ORLANDO, Florida (WESH) — It’s helping first responders save lives, and now, more agencies are getting a hold of it. The LUCAS III device is a chest compression system that works on its own. Bob Eul ...
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — A Phoenix hospital has a new device that doctors say will save lives and enhance care. Abrazo Central Campus added the LUCAS Chest Compression System in its emergency department ...
CPR is hard and sometimes dangerous work. As any experienced EMT will attest, the act of rhythmically, forcefully and properly pushing on a patient's bony chest plate — 100 times a minute to a depth ...
RANDALL — The Central Minnesota Emergency Medical Services Region announced through Project: LUCAS, it will provide the Randall Fire Department in Morrison County, Montrose Fire Department in Wright ...
Automatic chest compression devices are routinely used on Earth by doctors in restricted environments such as emergency helicopter, or where prolonged CPR needs to be carried out over a longer period ...
In a collaboration aimed at improving cardiac emergency responses, the Midland County EMS Advisory Board and associated EMS first responders, along with the Physician Associates of MidMichigan ...
BAY COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) - A Bay County Fire Department is asking for the public's help in getting a life-saving medical device. ABC12 went to the Pinconning-Fraser Fire Department to learn more on ...
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 ...