CPR saves lives, but it’s not exactly easy for first responders when they’re working in cramped spaces or inside a moving ambulance. Then there’s the problem of fatigue. “There’s a lot of research ...

BARGERSVILLE, Ind. — The LUCAS CPR device is a mechanical chest compression system that has been around for years. But now, it has an extra sense of value because of the COVID-19 crisis. "Being able ...

MANKATO — New devices will help Mankato firefighters provide precise CPR for extended periods with less manpower. Federal funding and a gift from the Mayo Clinic Health System helped the Mankato ...

Clark County Fire District 6 recently started using a mechanical device called LUCAS to help assist in CPR with patients suffering from a cardiac arrest — replacing the need for manual CPR. Training ...

Freeholder Director Robert M. Damminger and Freeholder Dan Christy announced that Gloucester County has equipped its county EMS ambulances and Quick Response Vehicles with a LUCAS device to help ...

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, ...

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 ...

Community West Foundation, in partnership with Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital, awarded a grant to the Avon Lake Fire Department on Feb. 3 to support the purchase of two LUCAS Mechanical CPR ...

ANTIOCH — Three days after the Contra Costa County Fire District rolled out a new CPR robot that does compressions, firefighters used it to savea 50-year-old man who had collapsed from a heart attack.

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 ...