LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Ambulances in New Albany now have new equipment to help save live. AmeriPro EMS demonstrated its new LUCAS machine on Friday. It gives mechanical chest compressions to ...
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 ...
A grant for new CPR equipment will let Omaha first responders potentially save more lives while also staying safe when transporting patients. The Omaha Fire Department now owns 12 LUCAS 3 Chest ...
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 ...
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) - More than 300,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest every year in this country, and 90% are fatal. “Sudden cardiac arrest is a major killer in the United States,” said James ...
Every year, more than 350,000 people in the U.S. are not in a hospital when they go into cardiac arrest. That means their heart stops beating. Only about 40% of them get CPR from a bystander.
KNOW HOW TO DO CPR AND IT COULD SAVE SOMEBODY’S LIFE. SAW A GENTLEMAN TRYING TO DO CPR. BUT EVEN AS I WAS DRIVING PAST, I COULD TELL THAT THE COMPRESSIONS WERE TOO SHALLOW. TARA ALI, A CARDIOLOGY ...
Chest compressions, or hands-only Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation, is a skill Rapides Regional Medical Center wants to encourage the public to learn. On Saturday and on Feb. 25, Rapides Regional ...
New research has found that a type of automatic chest compression is more effective to carry out CPR in space than the ‘handstand method’ that is currently recommended in emergency protocols for ...