Business Wire

Large Randomized Trial: LUCAS Chest Compression System is Effective and Reliable in Pre-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

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 ...
Chicago Tribune

North Chicago the latest department to get chest compression devices; ‘It’s a way to assure the best possible outcome for our citizens’

Firefighting officials in Lake County may not keep statistics on how more lives are saved by the use of chest compression machines, but they agree once they started using them the number of people ...
WAVE3

New Albany Fire gets new chest compression machines for CPR

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 ...
EurekAlert!

Cardiac arrest in space: New research shows that automatic chest compressions are more effective for CPR when both rescuer and patient are floating in microgravity

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 ...
Dayton Daily News

Paramedics explore benefits of automated CPR machine

HUBER HEIGHTS —The Huber Heights Fire Division is the first department in Montgomery County to own and utilize an automated chest compression machine, which officials said provides more consistent ...