Meet Lucas: Carmel Fire Department's CPR machine

Life-saving tech arrives in Marlin: LUCAS device gives rural patients a fighting chance

Falls Community Hospital in Marlin has introduced the LUCAS device, a life-saving CPR machine that helps offset staffing shortages and improves survival rates in emergency situations. Falls Community Hospital adds LUCAS device to deliver automated, hands-free CPR during emergencies. The device eases pressure on understaffed rural teams, replacing the need for multiple people during resuscitation. State support like Texas House Bill 18 is helping…

Meet Lucas: Carmel Fire Department's CPR machine

CARMEL When a heart stops, every second counts and the Carmel Fire Department is turning to technology to make those seconds matter more.The department has become one of the first in Indiana to equip every ambulance with a LUCAS device, a mechanical CPR machine designed to deliver consistent chest compressions during cardiac arrests.If we can have a tool that can help us have a better outcome, possibly, or better assist those patients in that mo…