MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — A Medtronic Inc. subsidiary will this fall start to sell a new version of its automated chest-compression device in the United States after winning early clearance from the ...

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 LUCAS Chest Compression System is an automated device designed to apply consistent chest compressions to a patient that has gone into cardiac arrest. While a trained EMT would normally provide CPR ...

IBERVILLE PARISH, La. (WAFB) - The Bayou Blue Volunteer Fire Department has received a new automated chest compression device, funded through House Bill 782 from the 2024 Louisiana legislative session ...

MILWAUKEE - New technology is helping save lives in southeast Wisconsin. An automated chest compression device is changing the way paramedics do their jobs. There are currently 12 LUCAS 3 devices with ...

MANKATO — New devices will help Mankato firefighters provide precise CPR for extended periods with less manpower. Federal funding and a gift from the Mayo Clinic Health System helped the Mankato ...

McLaren Central Michigan, part of McLaren Health Care, has received a grant to help with the purchase of potentially lifesaving automated CPR equipment. Housed and used in the emergency department, ...

The chance of surviving a heart attack in Nassau County has dramatically increased due to a new technology that will aid EMS medics responding to a cardiac arrest, law enforcement officials said ...

NEW BEDFORD — You may never have heard of it, but it's a device that just might save your life some day. It's called the LUCAS device, and patrons in a popular New Bedford restaurant recently saw it ...

Freeholder Director Robert M. Damminger and Freeholder Dan Christy announced that Gloucester County has equipped its county EMS ambulances and Quick Response Vehicles with a LUCAS device to help ...

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 ...