According to the American Heart Association, more than 350,000 cardiac arrests happen outside the hospital every year. When a person experiences cardiac arrest, their heart stops pumping blood to ...

GREECE, N.Y. – The North Greece Fire District received a lifesaving gift Wednesday. The LUCAS 3 mechanical CPR device is used to deliver chest compressions to a person in cardiac arrest. Firefighters ...

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 ...

What if a friend or stranger underwent a life-threatening medical event right in front of you? Would you have the composure and expertise to accurately perform CPR? Often in these situations, ...

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 ...

Milwaukee-area North Shore Fire and Rescue's Lieutenant Dan Tyk has responded to 9-1-1 calls where patients could have been saved if the people who placed the call had only performed CPR. He knows a ...

First Hands-Only CPR Device The FDA has approved CPR RsQ Assist, the first FDA-approved hands-only chest compression device designed to reduce fatigue and intimidation that are associated with ...

PENDER COUNTY – When a person goes into cardiac arrest, minutes and seconds count. Getting emergency personnel to a scene quickly to start cardiopulmonary resuscitation is vital. For rural counties ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - The Shreveport Fire Department is using life-saving devices for CPR situations. The department says the LUCAS device does continuous chest compressions up until it’s battery ...

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