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 ...
WDRB

New Albany ambulances add life-saving machine that can perform chest compressions

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 ...
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 ...
Daily Journal

Amity fire department hopes to buy life-saving CPR machine

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, ...
Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Most cardiac arrests end in death. That could change with this machine now in Fort Worth

CPR is one of the most recognizable bystander interventions during an emergency, relying on forceful chest compressions to mimic the heart’s ability to pump blood through the body. But CPR only works ...