WESTMINSTER, Calif. (KABC) -- Starting New Year's Day, all agencies responding to 911 calls in Orange County will be required to carry automatic chest compression devices (ACCDs) and some first ...

Chicago – Sten Rubertsson, M.D., Ph.D., of Uppsala University, Sweden and colleagues assessed whether cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in which chest compressions are delivered with a mechanical ...

Shane Hardin, account manager, Stryker, demonstrates the new Lucas CPR Compression Device to firefighters at the East Liverpool Fire Department. The device was recently purchased with a grant from the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA designated Defibtech’s recall of its automated continuous chest compression device as class I, the most ...

The recall is in response to a problem with the device’s motor that causes chest compressions to stop, which has resulted in one injury and one death, according to an Aug. 22 news release from the FDA ...

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 ...

Gwinnett commissioners on Tuesday approved the purchase of 31 LUCAS devices, equipment that delivers consistent and uninterrupted chest compressions to patients experiencing sudden cardiac arrest ...

NACOGDOCHES, Texas (KTRE) -Angelina County now has five new chest compressors for its ambulance services. The new device, called the Defibtech, is nicknamed “the arm.” These five devices will be in ...

Five emergency teams and the communities they serve across Saskatchewan will soon benefit from enhanced lifesaving technology following the donation of LUCAS 3.1 mechanical chest compression devices ...

SILVER SPRING, MD — The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted premarket approval to the ResQCPR system (Zoll Medical, Chelmsford, MA), a new compression-decompression device designed to ...

Researchers assessed whether cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in which chest compressions are delivered with a mechanical device would result in superior 4-hour survival in patients with ...