BACKGROUND: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) by health care responders is often suboptimal during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Mechanical CPR devices have been promoted as a strategy to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to the American Heart Association, more than 350,000 cardiac arrests happen outside the hospital every year. When a ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - The Shreveport Fire Department is using life-saving devices for CPR situations. The department says the LUCAS device does continuous chest compressions up until it’s battery ...

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 ...

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 ...

Advanced Circulatory Systems Inc. released positive results for a clinical trial for its ResQPump and ResQPOD cardiopulmonary resuscitation assistance devices. The Roseville, Minnesota-based CPR ...

A life-saving CPR device is being implemented in fire departments across Western Washington. It’s called a LUCAS device and it is strapped onto a patient to keep compressions going while they are ...

PUTNEY — It may be a few years away, but a new device with a long history of development could replace the AEDs that are ubiquitously attached to walls around the United States. Norman Paradis, of ...

Sep. 22—The Owensboro Fire Department is seeking a grant to purchase several automatic CPR devices that perform CPR continuously while responders also assist the patient. The Fire Department recently ...

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 ...

Trisha Flaherty-Barnes lay in a Des Moines hospital bed for nearly a week in a coma. Last May, she collapsed, suffering cardiac arrest at her home. Her husband knew CPR. "A lot of times it's hard for ...