PRAIRIETOWN — Thanks to a pair of firemen from the Prairietown Fire Department and an auto CPR compression machine from an Alton Memorial Hospital ambulance, Randy Luttrell was able to survive a ...

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 ...

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Deb Ross of Rapid City might have died without life-saving equipment, including an automated CPR machine called a Lucas 3 device, that first responders used after she suffered a cardiorespiratory ...

Fire Chief Jackie Brockman, left, and Assistant Chief Spenser Hunter of the Amity Volunteer Fire Department demonstrate how the LUCAS CPR device works. The piece of equipment provides consistent, ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO)-- A Shakopee woman is alive today thanks to a CPR machine that she just happened to help raise money to buy. Alicia Bravo, an emergency nurse at Hennepin County Medical Center, is ...

NORWICH - Just days after putting a new automated CPR machine – the first in Norwich - into service, Taftville Fire Department members were called on to use the device. “On Monday, less than a week ...

In many rural parts of Nebraska, CPR is challenging, said Dean Cole, the EMS and Trauma Program Administrator with the Division of Public Health. In smaller areas, there might be just one pre-hospital ...

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 ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - New Albany Fire has a new piece of equipment that can help save lives in a heart emergency. The LUCAS machine can be used when someone is in cardiac arrest. The machine ...

TOWNSEND — A person was in cardiac arrest, and first responders knew they had to act fast. In a situation where most would pair up and switch off between chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth breaths, ...

EAST RUTHERFORD — Pressing on the chest of a person who is in cardiac arrest can save their life — but only if it's done quickly and correctly. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, better known as CPR, is a ...