KING CITY, Ore. — At a fire house in King City Tuesday, crews gave KGW an up-close look at one of their newest tools, the Lucas Mechanical CPR Device. "It's highly efficient," said Capt. Tim Nokes of ...

GREECE, N.Y. – The North Greece Fire District received a lifesaving gift Wednesday. The LUCAS 3 mechanical CPR device is used to deliver chest compressions to a person in cardiac arrest. Firefighters ...

ENON — Thanks to a grant from the Mercy Health Foundation -- three emergency rooms in Clark and Champaign counties are now equipped with a new life-saving CPR tool. Each emergency room, in Enon, ...

Advanced AEDs, sophisticated mechanical CPR devices and automated tourniquets put firefighter/paramedics and EMTs in position to save more lives and increase their ...

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 ...

REDMOND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Physio-Control, Inc., the world’s leading provider of professional emergency response solutions, announced today that the main results of the large randomized LINC ...

VALDOSTA, Ga. (WALB) - Could new South Georgia emergency medical technology save lives? Nearly 500,000 Americans die from cardiac arrest a year, according to the American Heart Association’s most ...

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 ...

BOTHELL, Wash. — When Ron Baker and his wife Fay embarked on the trip of a lifetime, it soon led to a harrowing medical emergency and a new motivation to help others. "The first thing the doctor said ...

KENANSVILLE — Duplin County Emergency Medical Services ambulances are now equipped with mechanical Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (mCPR) devices. Mechanical CPR devices provide high quality compression ...

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 ...

This can be done by a frame with a piston, a more compact piston device, or a portable strap-on compression band. The goal was to see which of these methods could compress the simulated chest to a ...