Flagler County Fire Rescue has equipped all its ambulances with LUCAS (Lund University Cardiopulmonary Assist System) devices that provide mechanical chest compressions to patients in cardiac arrest.

IT CAN SAVE LIVES. THIS DEVICE IS CPR FOR FIRST RESPONDERS, BUT IT’S NOT EASY TO GET WESH 2’S TONY ATKINS FOUND OUT WHICH DEPARTMENTS ARE USING THIS TECHNOLOGY ALREADY, AND SPOKE WITH A MAN WHO SAYS ...

ROSEVILLE − The Roseville Volunteer Fire Department will receive a $41,000 grant from the Straker Foundation to purchase lifesaving chest compression equipment called a LUCAS device. “(The LUCAS ...

RANDALL — The Central Minnesota Emergency Medical Services Region announced through Project: LUCAS, it will provide the Randall Fire Department in Morrison County, Montrose Fire Department in Wright ...

In a collaboration aimed at improving cardiac emergency responses, the Midland County EMS Advisory Board and associated EMS first responders, along with the Physician Associates of MidMichigan ...

McLaren Central Michigan, part of McLaren Health Care, has received a grant to help with the purchase of potentially lifesaving automated CPR equipment. Housed and used in the emergency department, ...

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 ...

Jul. 16—WORTHINGTON — Thanks to some extra funds leftover from a grant, the Center for Resuscitation Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School donated a life-saving device to the ...

MOORHEAD, Minn. (Valley News Live) - The Clay County Sheriff’s office announced on May 22nd that they had been given a LUCAS device, designed to do chest compressions during CPR. The LUCAS device ...

MARSHFIELD, Wis. (WSAW) - Marshfield Fire Department Deputy Chief Steve Bakos says in 2023, they confirmed 11 patients who had CPR performed, actually got a pulse back from crews and then walked out ...