KING CITY, Ore. — At a fire house in King City Tuesday, crews gave KGW an up-close look at one of their newest tools, the Lucas Mechanical CPR Device. "It's highly efficient," said Capt. Tim Nokes of ...

MIAMISBURG — The Miami Valley Fire Department has purchased new technology to better assist paramedics in emergency situations. >>Driver rescued after crane truck overturns on I-70 in Clark County The ...

Spokane County Fire District 8 is getting ready to roll out devices that can perform CPR on patients, reducing the number of firefighters and paramedics needed to treat them. The district purchased ...

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 ...

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 ...

Advanced Circulatory Systems Inc. released positive results for a clinical trial for its ResQPump and ResQPOD cardiopulmonary resuscitation assistance devices. The Roseville, Minnesota-based CPR ...

PHOENIX — All Tempe Fire Medical Rescue frontline vehicles have been upgraded with CPR technology that helps first responders save more lives. Twelve of the department’s trucks and ambulances are now ...

The brain's ability to regain consciousness without a heartbeat may be an example of the improved cerebral blood flow obtained with two novel CPR devices that were the subject of a Medical College of ...

Cardiac resuscitation, commonly referred to as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), is an emergency procedure applied to individuals experiencing cardiac arrest, a condition in which the heart ...

Performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is tiring. After a few minutes, the effectiveness of CPR typically drops substantially because even trained professionals don’t have the muscular ...

Dr. Keith Lurie remembers when he met a male patient 23 years ago who was resuscitated not through traditional CPR, but with a toilet plunger on his chest. The experience motivated Lurie to look for a ...