Standard-Examiner

LUCAS chest compressions assist Hill cardiac arrest patients

HILL AIR FORCE BASE — Anyone at Hill Air Force Base suffering a condition that requires chest compressions may have a better chance of survival thanks to a newly acquired mechanical chest compression ...
WDAF-TV

Cardiac arrest survivor sees machine that saved his life in action

LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — A Lee’s Summit man owes his life to man and machine. When he went into cardiac arrest, humans had some help in doing chest compressions. This week, Randy Stafford watched a ...
WAVE3

New Albany Fire gets new chest compression machines for CPR

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - New Albany Fire has a new piece of equipment that can help save lives in a heart emergency. The LUCAS machine can be used when someone is in cardiac arrest. The machine ...
Chicago Tribune

North Chicago the latest department to get chest compression devices; ‘It’s a way to assure the best possible outcome for our citizens’

Firefighting officials in Lake County may not keep statistics on how more lives are saved by the use of chest compression machines, but they agree once they started using them the number of people ...
WDRB

New Albany ambulances add life-saving machine that can perform chest compressions

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Ambulances in New Albany now have new equipment to help save live. AmeriPro EMS demonstrated its new LUCAS machine on Friday. It gives mechanical chest compressions to ...
Science Daily

Compression-only CPR increases survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

In a Swedish study of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, bystander CPR rates nearly doubled and compression-only, or Hands-Only CPR, rates increased six-fold over the 18-year review. Compression-only and ...