REEDLEY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A pair of machines that can give patients chest compressions are now helping to save lives in eastern Fresno County. A $25,000 grant from Sierra Kings Health Care ...

PELL CITY — The Pell City Fire Department has put its new automatic chest compression machines into service. Fire Chief Tim Kurzejeski said the machines, known as the Lucas Chest Compression System, ...

ORLANDO, Florida (WESH) — It’s helping first responders save lives, and now, more agencies are getting a hold of it. The LUCAS III device is a chest compression system that works on its own. Bob Eul ...

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.

Automatic chest compression devices are routinely used on Earth by doctors in restricted environments such as emergency helicopter, or where prolonged CPR needs to be carried out over a longer period ...

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, ...

New research has found a more effective way to conduct cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in microgravity, which causes the weightlessness astronauts experience in space. The study found that a type ...

PITTSBURGH, June 14 - Standard cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) works better than an automated chest compression device, according to emergency medicine researchers from the University of ...

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 ...