Furthermore, mechanical devices do not tire, and maintain consistent depth and rate of compressions. The main disadvantage of A-CPR is the substantial weight of the device (11.6 kg including battery).

CPR involves manual chest compressions and, in some cases, rescue ("mouth-to-mouth") breathing. If available, a device called ...

Motion sensor technology – the same technology used on most smart phones – provides rescuers with immediate voice prompts if their CPR compression rate and depth are outside the 2015 AHA ...

Trained rescuers should initiate CPR by giving two rescue breaths followed by 30 chest compressions ... the use of flotation devices to prevent a person from going under, how to safely remove ...

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Lake Village Fire Department members attended Jan. 31 training on the LUCAS 3 chest compression device.

The department is adding mechanical CPR devices designed to assist first responders in maintaining the ideal compression depth and speed during resuscitation. The department’s EMS Division Chief ...

just two weeks before a critical dispatch call where the device was used to revive a patient. "Typically a person is going to do a round of CPR for about two minutes," paramedic Andrew Yahn said.

During the period October 2006 to April 2010 there were 66 OHCAs where A-CPR was administered, and these were matched to 220 controls (mean 3.3 controls per A-CPR case) selected from 1,610 cardiac ...