The Automated CPR Devices deliver uninterrupted compressions at a consistent rate as recommended by the American Heart Association. ALGONQUIN, IL – The Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection ...

Lucas 2, an automatic CPR machine, is a device that's saving lives by increasing heart attack victims' chances for survival.Greg Kotschwar, 57, attests to its merit."Quite frankly, I was dead," he ...

HARRISONVILLE, Mo. — Each year in the United States, 350,000 people go into cardiac arrest outside of the hospital. According to the American Heart Association, 90 percent of those people die.

The American Heart Association's 2025 update to CPR and ECC introduces new algorithms and protocols aimed at boosting EMS and ...

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 ...

Albuquerque Fire Rescue is arming its trucks with a new tool. The Lucas Device is an automatic CPR machine. Paramedics attach the device to the patient and it administers the necessary compressions ...

A new device Seattle researchers had hoped would improve the city's already stellar rates of survival for cardiac arrest patients appears to have failed its first major test. A five-city study found ...

Cardiac arrest, which often leads to a heart attack, is frighteningly common: every minute of every day there is another victim, according to the American Red Cross. Almost 80% of cardiac arrests ...

A new policy enacted by the Orange County Health Care Agency’s Emergency Medical Services now requires 10 agencies to use the chest compression devices on calls. Emergency agencies in Orange County, ...

WEBVTT OF. ANDREW: IT'S CALLED THE LUCAS 2, PROVIDING PERFECT CHEST COMPRESSIONS TO SOMEONE IN CARDIAC ARREST. NO ONE CAN ATTEST BETTER TO ITS IMPACT THAN GREG KOTSCHWAR. GREG: QUITE FRANKLY, I WAS ...

Albuquerque Fire Rescue is arming its trucks with a new tool. The LUCAS Device is an automatic CPR machine. Paramedics attach the device to the patient and it administers the necessary compressions ...