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 ...

WEST UNION, Iowa (KCRG) - First responders and hospitals in Fayette County received new CPR machines as a part of a $500,000. Wednesday evening a group first responders got a hands-on look at the ...

From very young ages, nearly all of us hear about CPR, and maybe even CPR training — learning how to keep someone’s heart beating after they have a heart attack or other cardiac event that causes the ...

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, ...

PEPPERELL (CBS) - A new, lifesaving machine did its job for the first time in Pepperell this weekend. It's called the Lucas 3, and it plays a crucial role in CPR. It is also the reason a 67-year-old ...

Emergency workers need to apply hands-on CPR when first on the scene of a cardiac arrest. After slipping the patient into a CPR machine, however, they can quickly switch to automated pushes to the ...

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 ...

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Anyone at Hill Air Force Base suffering a condition that requires chest compressions may have a better chance of survival thanks to a newly acquired mechanical chest compression ...

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

Old-fashioned CPR is getting a makeover. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is crucial when people collapse with cardiac arrest, but it’s hard to perform correctly. Now major efforts are under way to ...