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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)- West Metro Fire Rescue is training with the newest member of their life-saving team -- Lucas. No, that's not a person – it's a device. The LUCAS machine is a chest ...

MILWAUKEE - New technology is helping save lives in southeast Wisconsin. An automated chest compression device is changing the way paramedics do their jobs. There are currently 12 LUCAS 3 devices with ...

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 ...

PHOENIX — All Tempe Fire Medical Rescue frontline vehicles have been upgraded with CPR technology that helps first responders save more lives. Twelve of the department’s trucks and ambulances are now ...

The LUCAS Device, made by Physio Control, is designed to provide constant and consistent chest compressions during cardiac arrest. The device allows the paramedics to focus on other critical and life ...

BARGERSVILLE, Ind. — The LUCAS CPR device is a mechanical chest compression system that has been around for years. But now, it has an extra sense of value because of the COVID-19 crisis. "Being able ...

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, ...

Two years after creating a business plan with marker and construction paper, 11-year-old Lucas Vetter has raised $112,000 to purchase life-saving CPR machines for local fire departments. When Lucas ...

CPR is one of those things that you probably don't want to leave in the hands of someone who doesn't know exactly what they're doing, which is apparently why an emergency service in Britain has ...

The mechanical CPR device has shown to maintain blood circulation better than manual CPR, to increase operational efficacy and safety, and to improve the opportunities to save cardiac arrest patients.