The firefighters also deployed a brand new, $21,000 LUCAS device, which automatically provides the chest compressions central to the CPR technique.

Paramedics started using the LUCAS device last fall, and it only took 24 hours before they needed it for a patient. Collins says it’s hard to know just how much of an impact the device is having.

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LUCAS devices are most commonly used during cardiac arrest incidents, of which Worthington EMTs responded to around 10-15 times a year, in Hillesheim's estimate.

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Through this funding, the district was able to invest in Lund University Cardiac Assist Systems. Otherwise known as LUCAS devices.

A department on the Outer Banks is using a technology called the LUCAS device to help with CPR. Officials with Dare County EMS say it increases a person’s chance of survival in an emergency.