The chance of surviving a heart attack in Nassau County has dramatically increased due to a new technology that will aid EMS medics responding to a cardiac arrest, law enforcement officials said ...

HARRISONVILLE, Mo. — Each year in the United States, 350,000 people go into cardiac arrest outside of the hospital. According to the American Heart Association, 90 percent of those people die.

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Improved technology that automatically does CPR will take some of the burden off first responders and likely save lives. The device, called LUCAS 3, is portable and consists of a compression unit that ...

First responders in Nassau County who save lives every day just got some help. And it’s already helping them save more lives. Nassau ambulances have new technology on board that, at a crucial moment, ...

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, ...

MINEOLA, Long Island (WABC) -- A new device to help save lives is coming to Nassau County. The Defibtech Lifeline Automated Chest Compression Device will go into every police department ambulance in ...

Allentown has welcomed the addition of four chest compression devices to its paramedic ambulances. The city says that makes five automated CPR devices available to cardiac arrest patients. The chest ...

This article was written for our sponsor, Cape Fear Valley Health. A new automated CPR machine is coming to Hoke County that could just save your life one day. The LUCAS Chest Compression System is an ...

A new device Seattle researchers had hoped would improve the city's already stellar rates of survival for cardiac arrest patients appears to have failed its first major test. A five-city study found ...

Manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) techniques, including the "handstand" method, are ineffective in microgravity due to the lack of a counter-force to compression, resulting in insufficient ...