The London-Maybee-Raisinville Fire Department is hoping to purchase a LUCAS Automatic CPR machine. “The life-saving device is the latest technology available to help first responders save someone’s ...
The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office has a new life-saving tool for medical emergencies in remote areas: The LUCAS 3 automated CPR device. Oftentimes in rural parts of St. Louis County, deputies ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. -- A lifesaving device is helping local first responders improve CPR techniques. Last week, WEAR News reported that central Florida started using automatic chest compressors in ...
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 ...
For the first time, several volunteer fire departments in Hancock County have at least one Lucas Device — a mechanical chest compression system that preforms CPR. While a couple of volunteer fire ...
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 ...
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 ...
BURLINGTON — Six western Racine County fire and rescue agencies received automatic CPR device donations Wednesday. The devices were provided by the Memorial Hospital of Burlington Community Foundation ...