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 ...

Thanks to a donation from Health First, the Malabar Fire Department now has a LUCAS (Lund University Cardiopulmonary Assist System) device.

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.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LAKEWOOD, Colo. — It’s been nearly a year ...

First responders in Nassau County who save lives every day just got some help. And it’s already helping them save more lives. Nassau ambulances have new technology on board that, at a crucial moment, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

MINEOLA, Long Island (WABC) -- A new device to help save lives is coming to Nassau County. The Defibtech Lifeline Automated Chest Compression Device will go into every police department ambulance in ...

Guidelines from the American Heart Association and European Resuscitation Council call for a compression depth of 50-60 mm ...

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 ...