LEE’S SUMMIT, Mo. — A Lee’s Summit man owes his life to man and machine. When he went into cardiac arrest, humans had some help in doing chest compressions. This week, Randy Stafford watched a ...

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 ...

From very young ages, nearly all of us hear about CPR, and maybe even CPR training — learning how to keep someone’s heart beating after they have a heart attack or other cardiac event that causes the ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Ambulances in New Albany now have new equipment to help save live. AmeriPro EMS demonstrated its new LUCAS machine on Friday. It gives mechanical chest compressions to ...

Firefighting officials in Lake County may not keep statistics on how more lives are saved by the use of chest compression machines, but they agree once they started using them the number of people ...

CPR is one of the most recognizable bystander interventions during an emergency, relying on forceful chest compressions to mimic the heart’s ability to pump blood through the body. But CPR only works ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: This article is part of a special supplement, “EMS State of the Science: Important advances in prehospital cardiac care and resuscitation,” published in our sister publication JEMS. To ...

In a Swedish study of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, bystander CPR rates nearly doubled and compression-only, or Hands-Only CPR, rates increased six-fold over the 18-year review. Compression-only and ...

It's all right to skip mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and use hands-only compression when performing CPR on adults, according to the American Heart Association. Dr. Gordon Ewy, a longtime advocate of ...