From very young ages, nearly all of us hear about CPR, and maybe even CPR training — learning how to keep someone’s heart beating after they have a heart attack or other cardiac event that causes the ...

A new automated CPR machine is helping Cowlitz County Fire District 6 in Castle Rock better respond to cardiac arrest emergencies. CASTLE ROCK, WA -- For first responders, CPR can be exhausting and ...

Old-fashioned CPR is getting a makeover. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is crucial when people collapse with cardiac arrest, but it’s hard to perform correctly. Now major efforts are under way to ...

The Johnston Fire Department has a new way to help save your life.A CPR machine that automatically delivers life-saving compressions is now part of the department's tools.For a patient in cardiac ...

Lucas 2, an automatic CPR machine, is a device that's saving lives by increasing heart attack victims' chances for survival.Greg Kotschwar, 57, attests to its merit."Quite frankly, I was dead," he ...

TOWNSEND – A person was in cardiac arrest, and first responders knew they had to act fast. In a situation where most would pair up and switch off between chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth breaths, ...

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PRAIRIETOWN — Thanks to a pair of firemen from the Prairietown Fire Department and an auto CPR compression machine from an Alton Memorial Hospital ambulance, Randy Luttrell was able to survive a ...

MCKINNEY (CBSDFW.COM) - The City of McKinney has new machines that will be carried on all ambulances and fire trucks that can actually perform CPR without a human involved. It allows paramedics to do ...

NORWICH - Just days after putting a new automated CPR machine – the first in Norwich - into service, Taftville Fire Department members were called on to use the device. “On Monday, less than a week ...

NFL player Damar Hamlin had a televised sudden collapse on January 2. NFL Buffalo Bills player Damar Hamlin’s televised sudden collapse on January 2 appears to have significantly raised awareness of ...

WEBVTT OF. ANDREW: IT'S CALLED THE LUCAS 2, PROVIDING PERFECT CHEST COMPRESSIONS TO SOMEONE IN CARDIAC ARREST. NO ONE CAN ATTEST BETTER TO ITS IMPACT THAN GREG KOTSCHWAR. GREG: QUITE FRANKLY, I WAS ...