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 ...

CPR is hard and sometimes dangerous work. As any experienced EMT will attest, the act of rhythmically, forcefully and properly pushing on a patient's bony chest plate — 100 times a minute to a depth ...

The Tuscumbia Fire Department successfully deployed cutting-edge life-saving technology in a response that put their training and equipment to the test. The department recently acquired 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 ...

TWIN FALLS — Administering CPR can be physically demanding when having to give it over large stretches, but the life-saving emergency procedure will get easier for some local first responders as they ...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WSMV) - Murfreesboro Fire Rescue trucks are now equipped with new life-saving medical equipment. The new service equipment provides hands-free chest compressions on cardiac arrest ...

New research has found that a type of automatic chest compression is more effective to carry out CPR in space than the ‘handstand method’ that is currently recommended in emergency protocols for ...