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VALDOSTA, Ga. (WALB) - Could new South Georgia emergency medical technology save lives? Nearly 500,000 Americans die from cardiac arrest a year, according to the American Heart Association’s most ...

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 ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4)- West Metro Fire Rescue is training with the newest member of their life-saving team -- Lucas. No, that's not a person – it's a device. The LUCAS machine is a chest ...

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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 ...

The Easthampton public safety complex at 32 Payson Ave. (Mary Serreze Photo) EASTHAMPTON -- Thanks to a private grant, the Easthampton Fire Dept. will soon have a new, state-of-the-art device to ...

The LUCAS Device, made by Physio Control, is designed to provide constant and consistent chest compressions during cardiac arrest. The device allows the paramedics to focus on other critical and life ...

FRANKLIN - The Franklin Fire Department has a new member of the team named LUCAS. No, LUCAS is not a person, but rather a mechanical CPR device, which stands for Lund University Cardiac Arrest System.

In many rural parts of Nebraska, CPR is challenging, said Dean Cole, the EMS and Trauma Program Administrator with the Division of Public Health. In smaller areas, there might be just one pre-hospital ...

CPR is one of those things that you probably don't want to leave in the hands of someone who doesn't know exactly what they're doing, which is apparently why an emergency service in Britain has ...

Two years after creating a business plan with marker and construction paper, 11-year-old Lucas Vetter has raised $112,000 to purchase life-saving CPR machines for local fire departments. When Lucas ...