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Yankee Springs Fire Department adds LUCAS Chest Compression System

The Yankee Springs Fire Department continues to add equipment that makes its staff more efficient, more effective and saves lives. Recently they added battery-powered tools to cut open car doors and roofs that can be carried to someone trapped in a vehicle if the fire truck is not close enough to use equipment tethered to the truck.

 

Now, they have the Lucas Chest Compression System that first responders and paramedics will use to give effective and uninterrupted chest compressions to sudden cardiac arrest patients, while at the scene, getting into an ambulance, in transit and into the hospital.

With automated CPR, the fatigue and individual variations are removed from CPR, and there is no longer the need for shifting CPR providers every two minutes, said Wayland Deputy Fire Chief Dan Miller.

 

“Rescuers are freed up to focus on other critical life saving tasks, such as ventilation, medication and defibrillation, which leads to increased attention on the cardiac arrest,” Miller said.

Performing CPR in a moving ambulance is known to be very difficult to achieve manually and may compromise a first responder’s safety if they are doing compressions during transportation.

 

“With the Lucas consistently performing the compressions in transport, rescuers work in a more secure setting while on the road,” he said.

The Lucas was delivered last week, and after departmental training, was put into service this week.

 

“The firefighters and MFR’s are very happy and want to thank the Yankee Springs Township Fire Committee, township board and taxpayers for allowing us to the purchase of this piece of lifesaving equipment,” Miller said.

 

Photo: (upper left) The LUCAS Chest Compression System.

 

(left) The LUCAS Chest Compression System at work was demonstrated at the recent first Night Out in Hastings. This little girl pats the manikin’s face, comforting it while it gets compressions.

 

 

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