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 ...

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 ...

Lund, Sweden - In the February issue of Resuscitation Journal, a case series reports on good outcomes of in-hospital cardiac arrest patients that traditionally have a very poor survival prognosis, so ...

The Bayou Blue Volunteer Fire Department has received a new automated chest compression device.

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 ...

A battery-operated compression belt buckled around the chest restores blood flow better than manual chest compressions and conventional CPR, according to a Johns Hopkins-led animal study. The device, ...

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 ...