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 ...

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 ...

Community West Foundation, in partnership with Cleveland Clinic Fairview Hospital, awarded a grant to the Avon Lake Fire Department on Feb. 3 to support the purchase of two LUCAS Mechanical CPR ...

Covington Firefighters pose with the family of Vanessa Dolan and the LUCAS device they used to save Dolan’s life. COVINGTON – A woman who collapsed in a pharmacy and was clinically dead is about to be ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clark County Fire District 6 recently started using a mechanical device called LUCAS to help assist in CPR with patients suffering from a cardiac arrest — replacing the need for manual CPR. Training ...

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 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 ...

You might stand a better chance of surviving a heart attack just by living in Marblehead. One to two saves, that is what Marblehead Fire Department used to make in a year when it came to cardiac ...

The St. Louis County Sheriff’s Office has a new life-saving tool for medical emergencies in remote areas: The LUCAS 3 automated CPR device. Oftentimes in rural parts of St. Louis County, deputies ...

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 ...