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 ...

Shane Hardin, account manager, Stryker, demonstrates the new Lucas CPR Compression Device to firefighters at the East Liverpool Fire Department. The device was recently purchased with a grant from the ...

MILWAUKEE - New technology is helping save lives in southeast Wisconsin. An automated chest compression device is changing the way paramedics do their jobs. There are currently 12 LUCAS 3 devices with ...

ANTIOCH — Three days after the Contra Costa County Fire District rolled out a new CPR robot that does compressions, firefighters used it to savea 50-year-old man who had collapsed from a heart attack.

Vermont Business Magazine CPR Therapeutics Inc. (CPR-T), a development-stage medical device company based in Putney, Vermont, has announced the appointment of Scott T. Youngquist, MD, MS, FACEP, FAEMS ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A device that can stand in for human hands and provide CPR compressions could change how a northern Arizona air ambulance gives life-saving care. Guardian Air, which maintains ...

Chicago – Sten Rubertsson, M.D., Ph.D., of Uppsala University, Sweden and colleagues assessed whether cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in which chest compressions are delivered with a mechanical ...

A Carpentersville resident was revived recently due to the actions of several firefighter-paramedics and an automatic CPR device, fire officials said. The Carpentersville Fire Department responded to ...

Experienced and first-time responders can now easily perform effective CPR. Simple place-and-press functionality requires no complicated preparation or product assembly, while a non-slip surface and ...