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 ...

Nearly $1,000 was raised during the London-Maybee-Raisinville Fire Department’s April 5 fundraiser at Little Brown Jug in Maybee. The LUCAS Automatic CPR machine is shown. Provided by Mark Manor The ...

Improved technology that automatically does CPR will take some of the burden off first responders and likely save lives. The device, called LUCAS 3, is portable and consists of a compression unit that ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Boyertown Lions Community Ambulance Service held training for the Lucas 2 Chest Compression System on ...

MARSHFIELD, Wis. (WSAW) - Marshfield Fire Department Deputy Chief Steve Bakos says in 2023, they confirmed 11 patients who had CPR performed, actually got a pulse back from crews and then walked out ...

New automatic CPR machines in use for about a month on Vandergrift/Oklahoma EMS ambulances have already helped paramedics and EMTs save lives. Vandergrift/Oklahoma Emergency Medical Services recently ...

A Carpentersville resident was revived recently due to the actions of several firefighter-paramedics and an automatic CPR device, fire officials said. The Carpentersville Fire Department responded to ...

Performing CPR involves pressing down on the chest of someone in cardiac arrest 100 to 120 times per minute. It can be exhausting, as well as unnerving. That explains why some local Emergency Medical ...

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Iowa (KWWL) — The Washington County Ambulance Service started using an automatic CPR device about a year ago. Since then it’s helped them respond to cardiac emergencies in rural ...

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 ...