LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - New Albany Fire has a new piece of equipment that can help save lives in a heart emergency. The LUCAS machine can be used when someone is in cardiac arrest. The machine ...
From very young ages, nearly all of us hear about CPR, and maybe even CPR training — learning how to keep someone’s heart beating after they have a heart attack or other cardiac event that causes the ...
Fire Chief Jackie Brockman, left, and Assistant Chief Spenser Hunter of the Amity Volunteer Fire Department demonstrate how the LUCAS CPR device works. The piece of equipment provides consistent, ...
This article was written for our sponsor, Cape Fear Valley Health. A new automated CPR machine is coming to Hoke County that could just save your life one day. The LUCAS Chest Compression System is an ...
PEPPERELL (CBS) - A new, lifesaving machine did its job for the first time in Pepperell this weekend. It's called the Lucas 3, and it plays a crucial role in CPR. It is also the reason a 67-year-old ...
AUTAUGA COUNTY, Ala. (WSFA) - The Autauga County Commission has invested some of the federal CARES Act money it received from the state into a dozen medical devices that could save the life of someone ...
IT CAN SAVE LIVES. THIS DEVICE IS CPR FOR FIRST RESPONDERS, BUT IT’S NOT EASY TO GET WESH 2’S TONY ATKINS FOUND OUT WHICH DEPARTMENTS ARE USING THIS TECHNOLOGY ALREADY, AND SPOKE WITH A MAN WHO SAYS ...
NORWICH - Just days after putting a new automated CPR machine – the first in Norwich - into service, Taftville Fire Department members were called on to use the device. “On Monday, less than a week ...
SPRINGVILLE — At its meeting Tuesday, the Springville City Council discussed the possibility of purchasing LUCAS Chest Compression System devices, or automated CPR machines, for its first responders.
Firefighting officials in Lake County may not keep statistics on how more lives are saved by the use of chest compression machines, but they agree once they started using them the number of people ...