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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With the help of a local hospital, Schertz EMS is receiving several state-of-the art CPR devices that will allow EMTs to provide better and faster care to heart attack victims. Live Oak's Northeast ...

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 ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has moved to reclassify two medical device products under its class II special controls, just months after the FDA Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA) made it ...

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 ...

French researchers simulating weightlessness on a modified jet have found that manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is ineffective in space. This conclusion could reshape emergency medical ...

Spokane County Fire District 8 is getting ready to roll out devices that can perform CPR on patients, reducing the number of firefighters and paramedics needed to treat them. The district purchased ...

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 ...

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 ...