For the past decade, only two fire agencies in Orange County — the cities of Newport Beach and Orange — chose to use automated chest compression devices instead of manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation ...
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 Bayou Blue Volunteer Fire Department has received a new automated chest compression device.
FLORENCE, AL (WAFF) - A better chance at survival! That’s what officials at the Shoals Ambulance Service say about new automated chest compression devices. Our partners with the Times Daily say 10 ...
ORLANDO, Florida (WESH) — It’s helping first responders save lives, and now, more agencies are getting a hold of it. The LUCAS III device is a chest compression system that works on its own. Bob Eul ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Two studies comparing the use of manual chest compression vs. an automated chest compression device during resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest produce contrasting findings, according to ...
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 ...