A new tool, already in use on McMinnville Fire District ambulances, will help Willamette Valley Medical Center continue CPR while also addressing other needs of cardiac arrest patients. Called a ...

STEVENS COUNTY, Wash. – Stevens County Fire District 1 will buy two new CPR compression devices after winning a $35,000 Federal Emergency Management Agency grant. The devices help reduce the need for ...

HANCOCK COUNTY, Ind. — Hancock County is buying lifesaving CPR devices for every one of their area fire departments. The county has purchased 13 LUCAS CPR devices that can give consistent chest ...

A team of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder is gathering at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning for a planned launch of their IDEX space device. The IDEX, short for ...

Manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) techniques, including the "handstand" method, are ineffective in microgravity due to the lack of a counter-force to compression, resulting in insufficient ...

The Lafayette Fire Department is enhancing its emergency response capabilities with new lifesaving technology, thanks to a grant from the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation. The department was ...

This can be done by a frame with a piston, a more compact piston device, or a portable strap-on compression band. The goal was to see which of these methods could compress the simulated chest to a ...

I admit: I'm a fan of magnetic phone accessories that add new features and style to my phone. Apple, Google and other companies that form the Wireless Power Consortium have been evolving the open Qi ...

A NEW study conducted during parabolic flight has shown that automatic chest compression devices (ACCDs), particularly a standard piston device, provide far more effective cardiopulmonary ...